Late 2011 Macbook Pro won't sleep!

So I purchased a late 2011 macbook pro brand new from an apple store 3 weeks ago. Everything seemed well at first (except for a wake issue I had... odd)
Anyways... I started noticing that my notebook wasnt going to sleep, so I adjusted the power settings to sleep after 1 minute...
Sometimes the laptop will sleep after 20 minutes or more... sometimes it won't sleep at all (on all night!)
I'm wondering what the heck is going on? I tried re-installing Lion and using migration assistant to bring all my files back... no dice. same symptom.
-I've re-installed Lion
-I've tried SMC and PRAM resets
-I've tried "pmset -g assertions" and see no conflicts
-I've tried "pmset -g" and see nothing odd
-I've tried clicking / unclicking all the "sharing" settings
-I've made sure ALL applications are closed
-pmset -g log returns a few "slowresponses" but nothing too crazy (200ms)
-system log returns some odd "wake for GIGE (network)" responses while im trying to make it sleep.
-I deleted all printers /ques
The system WILL sleep if i manually click "sleep" or use the power button.
The system WILL sleep if i unplug the power cable and close the lid.
I have a 2nd display using a thunderbolt to DVI adapter... but unplugging this seems to have no effect.
What am I missing? could this be a logic board issue on a brand new mac? I'm lost! any suggestsion would help!

I may have solved this -- maybe -- by reinstalling Mavericks. Two days after the re-install (which was easy), the sleep function seems to be working properly.

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anything is possible - corrupt files - corrupt drivers - it could be anything.
try doing a nvram/pram reset and see if that sorts it out.
i have ssd installed in all my Macbook/Macbook Pro and have never had any issues.
Then again, I don't have windows installed in any of them.
hopefully the nvram/pram reset sorts it out for you.
once you've done that reset - go back to system preferences - startup disk and select your ssd as the startup drive again - then restart it again.

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    MacBook Pro - model: MacBookPro8,1
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        BANK 0/DIMM0
            2 GB DDR3 1333 MHz ok
        BANK 1/DIMM0
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 ▹ System Preferences ▹ Energy Saver ▹ Power Adapter ▹ Wake for network access: uncheck. You may need to unlock the preference pane by clicking the lock icon in the lower left corner and entering your administrator password.
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2. Keep OS X Lion and use AirParrot > http://www.airparrot.com
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I connected my late 2011 MacBook Pro to my TV using a Thunderbolt HDMI adapter, and closed the lid. When I opened it, it wouldn't show the login screen, so I restarted using power button. Got stuck at the Apple logo with the spinning wheel. So I booted the Recovery HD and found out it was a HD problem, so I (reluctantly) erased the HD and installed Lion from scratch. When it rebooted (after DOWNLOADING the Lion components) I got some terminal commands (sorry for not being more specific, still a noob when it comes to Mac) and then the screen faded and a message appeared saying I needed to reboot the computer. So I did. 3 effing times. Then I got stuck AGAIN at the spinning wheel, and I'm currently with that on my screen. I'm trying the forums before calling Apple (my computer's still within the 90 days of warranty) because it's not yet 9 A.M. where I live

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