MacBook Pro not waking up after being put to sleep

Hey everyone, got a weird question. I bought an external monitor for my MacBook Pro (late 2010, Lion). For the past few days, whenever I put it to sleep using the sleep command in the Apple menu, I come home at night and find that it woke up at some point, started collecting my Growl notifications and IRC messages and just sat there running all day. It's also pretty warm when I pick it up (I'd say about as warm as half an hour of Minecraft gets it, not sure how else to describe it). The monitor is being left plugged in all day, as is a Logitech Unifiying reciever for my house. It's also connected to an Apple Bluetooth Keyboard the whole time.
What the heck is going on? Anyone got a solution? Thanks!

The principle is this: whenever your MBP is involved in an operation that keeps it awake, your MBP will keep this command going - until you disable the process. For me, it's the application Printopia; if I have sharing disabled - which Printopia doesn't want me to do - it keeps my machine awake, until I enable sharing.
Your situation is going to take a little invesigation on your part, but I can guarantee you that it's not a system or hardware issue. Systematically, disable or enable functions - typically on Control Panel - until the process is resolved. There's no "wizard" to root out the problem.

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