Macbook pro does not go to sleep when closing lid

Hi,
I'm having a weird problem with my macbook pro. When I close the lid, my macbook does not go to sleep. Even more weird: when I put my macbook to sleep using cmd + alt + the eject button or using the apple button => sleep, my macbook stops sleeping as soon as I close the lid
It seems like this problem occured after installing the Nosleep extension for mac (http://code.google.com/p/macosx-nosleep-extension/). I already deleted that program and rebooted, but that did not help.

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Launch the Terminal application in any of the following ways: 
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Triple-click anywhere in the line of text below on this page to select it:
kextstat -kl | awk '!/com\.apple/{printf "%s %s\n", $6, $7}' | open -ef 
Copy the selected text to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C. Then click anywhere in the Terminal window and paste (command-V). A TextEdit window will open with the output of the command. If the command produced no output, the window will be empty. Post the contents of the TextEdit window (not the Terminal window), if any — the text, please, not a screenshot. You can then close the TextEdit window. The title of the window doesn't matter, and you don't need to post that. No typing is involved in this step.
Step 2 
Repeat with this line:
{ sudo launchctl list | sed 1d | awk '!/0x|com\.(apple|openssh|vix\.cron)|org\.(amav|apac|cups|isc|ntp|postf|x)/{print $3}'; echo; sudo defaults read com.apple.loginwindow LoginHook; echo; sudo crontab -l; } 2> /dev/null | open -ef 
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Step 3
{ launchctl list | sed 1d | awk '!/0x|com\.apple|org\.(x|openbsd)/{print $3}'; echo; crontab -l 2> /dev/null; } | open -ef 
Step 4
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Step 5
osascript -e 'tell application "System Events" to get name of login items' | open -ef 
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