IMac doesn't wake up from screensaver/sleep...

For some reason, after a recent HDD replacement and reinstall, my iMac won't give me my password prompt when I try to wake it from sleep (after it shows the screensaver, and then powersaver turns the display off).
So the display is off, I hit the keyboard, and all I can see is my mouse cursor, and after about 5 seconds, a spinning beach ball....it NEVER brings me to my password dialogue box, and I have to turn it off and on again...
Any ideas? My screensaver is the word/dictionary one built into Leopard...

Maybe something in this article will help.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1543

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