Lost Cursor Control and locks up after putting the iMAC to sleep

Has anyone an idea why the iMAC locks up and will not accept mouse of tracker controls after putting to sleep for a awhile?

Yes, just put your computer to sleep whenever you judge it right.
The three nightly maintenance tasks are not important enough to change your habits,
they do not affect OS X performance: only disk space.
And yes, since 10.4.2 they are automatically delayed if your computer was sleeping, but you still have to run them manually
— all three together once a month is fine —
if you sometimes shut down or reboot your computer.
Use this Terminal command
sudo periodic daily weekly monthly
or one of the "cache-cleaners" utilities like Cocktail etc.
HTH
Axl

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Yes, just put your computer to sleep whenever you judge it right.
The three nightly maintenance tasks are not important enough to change your habits,
they do not affect OS X performance: only disk space.
And yes, since 10.4.2 they are automatically delayed if your computer was sleeping, but you still have to run them manually
— all three together once a month is fine —
if you sometimes shut down or reboot your computer.
Use this Terminal command
sudo periodic daily weekly monthly
or one of the "cache-cleaners" utilities like Cocktail etc.
HTH
Axl

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Interestingly software options such as commandE in iTunes and Toast6 work to eject. I think therefore it's a keyboard recognition problem, only for those four keys.
Nobody can say I don't try hard to cause (and resolve) problems.
My FINAL SOLUTION will be to reinstall the OS, and do all the upgrades again, but I thought I'd see if anyone else had any thoughts. Oh, I didn't reset the CUDA switch once I'd decided it was probably software related.
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After you launch Terminal, the first step is to determine which sleep mode your Mac is currently using. You can both view and change the sleep mode using the Unix program pmset. To see your current settings, type (or, copy and paste)
pmset -g | grep hibernatemode
press 'enter'
You should see something like this:
$ pmset -g | grep hibernatemode
hibernatemode 3
So your machine is using mode 3 ... thanks to the documentation for the handy Deep Sleep Dashboard widget, which puts your machine immediately into hibernation mode (so you don’t have to yank all the power sources to invoke it):
* 0 - Old style sleep mode, with RAM powered on while sleeping, safe sleep disabled, and super-fast wake.
* 1 - Hibernation mode, with RAM contents written to disk, system totally shut down while “sleeping,” and slower wake up, due to reading the contents of RAM off the hard drive.
* 3 - The default mode on machines introduced since about fall 2005. RAM is powered on while sleeping, but RAM contents are also written to disk before sleeping. In the event of total power loss, the system enters hibernation mode automatically.
also, I enabled this (to change back, input "lidwake 1":
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Now, when your computer is sleeping with the lid closed, when you open the lid nothing happens until you press any key ... nice: keeps it off when accidentally opened, like in a backpack?
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Lost Cursor Control and locks up after putting the iMAC to sleep

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