Mac Mini Sleep problem - help!

I have a new Mac Mini 1.83 and a new Envision 22" LCD monitor and when I put the Mac Mini to sleep and click on the keyboard, the MacMini comes out of sleep but the display screen stays black. If I manually set the computer to sleep a second time and take it out of sleep a second time by clicking on the keyboard, then the display works properly. But I have to put it to sleep and make it come out of sleep TWICE before the Envision display works properly. Any ideas about this problem?

I have that problem since Quicktime 7.1.6 update (or the Airport Update, can't say).
When rebooting the display stays dark, but everything comes up fine. When I put in the Installation CD, the display turns on.
(DVI-FullHD, as before).
But after the "blank" screensaver gets activated, the display doesn't turn on again, not even using the CD.
(Although everything else still runs fine.)
HELP !
Mac Mini Intel/1.66 Mac OS X (10.4.9)

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