Login password sometimes rejected

Computer rejects login password from sleep about 40% of the time on first attempt. Anyone ever heard of this happening? I just upgraded to Mountain Lion from Snow Leopard. Never happened with Snow Leopard.
MacBook Pro mid 2010, Mac OS Mountain Lion, 8GB ram, 500GB HD 1/3 used, battery fully charged.
Steve.

I may have figured it out...
Rogers Yahoo Mail asks for your password every two weeks. So when this happens it will do the same with Apple Mail, but won't accept the password through Apple Mail.
So I logged onto the web-based mail and entered my password there, and everything seems to work fine... For two more weeks.

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