Leopard on MDD-Display sleeps but computer won't sleep or wake-Need Help!

I installed Leopard on a 2nd internal drive and made it the boot drive. (I kept my 10.4.11 on the original internal drive.) Everything seems to run fine, but the machine will not go to sleep as told to do in System Prefs. The display sleeps, but the computer continues to run. (fans are on) It will not wake from this state. I have to power down and power up to get things going again.
I also have the 'Repair Permissions' issue.. Bar says about one minute but just sits there.
It's a MDD dual 1 gig, with 1.5 gig. mem.
Can anyone help figure this one out?
John

I spent literally hours on the phone with Apple Support. We tried one thing after another with no success. We deleted com.apple files, one Pref. file after another, we unplugged one external device after another. It went on for about 4 hours or more. I finally couldn't stand it any more and we agreed to give up for the day.I did some more research on my own and heard rummers about PCI USB/Firewire cards sometimes causing problems. I had such a card installed. It was an old Orange Micro card. I removed the card and guess what.. Everything worked just fine. Why it worked with 10.4.11 and not 10.5.1, is beyond me, but there you have it. Oh yeah, I did also install the FULL download of the 10.5.1 upgrade. The Software Update version is a patch, the full download is much more.
Now I need to find a replacement PCI USB/Firewire card that runs with 10.5.1 Anyone have any suggestions?
John

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