MacBook falls asleep out of nowhere- Help!

I am so frustrated. I just completed two hours worth of work and it's gone because my MacBook Pro just falls asleep out of nowhere and won't wake up. I had to restart it. It has done it now three times. I am running Cinematize, so the disc drive is at work and I don't know if that has anything to do with it. Also, it fell asleep all times when I just barely moved the laptop. Can anyone help me figure out what's wrong. Again, my computer is only two months old and I never had this problem with my old white MacBook.
I also cloned my new MacBook Pro from my old MacBook 10.5.7. Could that have anything to do with it?
Thanks so much in advance.

I also cloned my new MacBook Pro from my old MacBook 10.5.7. Could that have anything to do with it?
It certainly could. Your two-month-old MBP shouldn't even be able to start up in OS X 10.5.7. Even if it does anyway, I wouldn't expect for one moment that it would behave properly running that OS version.

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