Lid Shut, Apple LED off Macbook Freezes then heats up in backpack

Hi, I have a Santa Rosa 2.0 Macbook. I've had this problem before in the past and found a fix after a couple weeks of searching however I recently installed leopard again and seem to have run into the problem once again. I can't seem to find the same fix I found before, so here the problem....
Whenever I close the lid to my Macbook, the apple turns off the light on the case and everything seems like it's all good. I put the macbook in my bag, and then take it out when I get to school and the thing is wicked hot. when I open it no responce from it and the LED on the front is lit up solid, no turning off then on like normally it would when it sleeps. I'm forced to restart the machine and go through all of this again when I need to.
Now, I know the fix for this has to do with Terminal, and it's just a single line command. It's not turning off the Safe sleep feature, nothing to do with restarting the PRAM or anything like that. It's just a single command and it fixed it last time.
PLEASE, PLEASE HELP!

I found these 2 articles for you. Is this what you mean:
[How to: Quickly Sleep your MacBook|http://paulstamatiou.com/2007/12/06/how-to-quickly-sleep-your-macbook]
[How to Speed Up Sleep Mode on MacBooks|http://lifehacker.com/367911/speed-up-sleep-mode-on-macbooks]
Hope tis is what you're looking for. -GDF

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