MacBook Pro: Weird spontaneous wake up

My Wife's MBP (Core 2 late 2006 model) had been asleep for 4 days when it suddenly woke up yesterday. We were not at home at the time, but this morning the machine was running (steady light, warm, but not hot), but opening the lid did not wake up the screen.
I had to do a hard reboot, but I noticed afterwards that the machine had been running all night (doing log rotations at midnight) after the spontaneous wake up yesterday. I checked the logs, and found that the wake reason was "USB7 USB4". Checking with the profiler, I found out that these are the internal iSight and bluetooth controller! My initial suspicion was that the machine was set to wake up from bluetooth events, but it wasn't.
Any clues?
Ah, and one more thing: Afterwards there were messages from UserEventAgent-Aqua about the /System/Library/CoreServices/Menu Extras/TextInput.menu

Thanks for the new information, Espen
Thanks for the star, too.
... bug somewhere, because the machine is set to not allow BT devices to wake it up!
If you have another BlueTooth device, you can use it to test whether you can induce a repeatable awakening of your MBP even though your MBP setting is "Off." Knowing whether your problem is repeatable may help eliminate some potential causes.
The next time you do not use your MBP for several days, if the BT test suggested above has not yielded any new information, it might be worthwhile to perform the test suggested in my first response.
... there was a thunderstorm ...
You may have hit upon something here. I live in summer thunderstorm country, so I know that power hits and lightning's electrical noise can effect any of our sensitive electrical devices. Although battery powered devices like your MBP are well protected against power surges, brownouts, and outages, it seems possible to me that RFI from lightning could have resulted in the problems you mention.
Another possiblity you can check is whether your firmware might need update:
http://support.apple.com/downloads/MacBookPro_EFI_Firmware_Update_12
effects wake from sleep issues on MacBook Pro computers, although I do not know exactly how.
Also, if your MBP is still covered by AppleCare, you might want to talk with them about it.
EZ Jim
G5 DP 1.8GHz w/Mac OS X (10.5.7) PowerBook 1.67GHz (10.4.11) iBookSE 366MHz (10.3.9) External iSight

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