IBook has insomnia

My iBook G4, running Tiger, is having trouble falling asleep.
Used to be, I'd close it and it'd go to sleep immediately. You hear the drive spin down, the little flashing light comes on, and there, it's asleep.
Now, I've been noticing a problem.
It doesn't go to sleep right away. I haven't really documented its behavior much, but I've noticed that after closing the cover, several minutes later I'll hear it do it's sleep spin-down. Even closed it's easy to wake up as well.
I'm afraid I don't have much more than that at the moment.
Anyone got any ideas on what the story might be, or what I might do to correct it? Short of reinstalling the OS, with the lengthy series of upgrade installations that would entail?
Thanks.

I have about 0.5 GB at the moment - a few large files waiting to xfr to another drive.
I just noticed something tonight, however. I think it has to do with the trackpad button. I closed the cover, and as I pressed down, the Apple light came on and I heard the drive activate. Opened it up, and it went to sleep. Close it, it's fine - until I press down on the front edge enough to click the trackpad button. Light goes back on. Open it up, wait a few seconds, and it's back to sleep.
Also, if I close the lid but don't press down, no light until I open it again.
It seems my iBook is momentarily ignoring whatever instruction tells it to ignore the trackpad button when the lid closes.
I think this is due to a delay in switching over to full sleep mode. I've timed it. Close the lid, light goes out, open the lid, light comes back on, then in 30 seconds (from initially closing the lid) it switches over to sleep mode. Screen goes black, flashing light, etc.
Does this sound like a good estimate of what's causing it? And any thoughts on why this might happen?
Thanks

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