Ibook shuts down after closing lid

So over the weekend my ibook g4 has shut down randomly after shutting the lid and going to sleep. When I open the lid the screen is black and nothing is happening. I cannot turn it on from the power button until after taking the battery out and putting it back in. this has happened maybe 3 or 4 times in just a couple of days.
any ideas of what this could be and how to fix it?
thank you

When you shut the lid on your laptop, what does the sleep light do? if it comes on and blinks then its sleeping, and not waking up properly. However, if it isnt coming on, its not sleeping, its just crashing. Sometimes, they just have issues with sleeping. I'm going to recomend that you try installing a program called sleepless. what sleepless does is well stop your computer from sleeping. I used it on my iBook because i had the same problem, Here this is sleepless now after you install you need to choose the "prevent sleep with lid closed" keep in mind that you need to be an administrator to do this function. Doing this when you are running programs can sometimes result in overheating, but usually nothing serous, as long as you don't have anything running, and it takes more battery power to do this. so if your on battery power you can still put it to sleep manually (in the apple menu) and close the lid.

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