Macbook Pro goes to sleep instead of shutdown...

Hi!
I'm new to this forum, I've tried asking on my local apple forum by=ut they wern't able to help me... Maybe you'll be...
My problem is that infrequently my macbook pro after hitting the "shut down" button seems to shut down, the screen goes blank, but when i close the cover the sleep mode icon turns on... Then it is impossible to turn him back on... The only thing left to do is remove the battery and then put it back in.
After the system starts it says sth like: MAC OSX quit unexpectadly, report?
My only guess is that it could be connected with the double command. But I have the newest version and it is said to be workig with leopard fine...

Try having a look in Console, in your Utilities folder. This shows you what your Mac is trying to do on shutdown.
You could post the results back here for people to have a look at.

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