Macbook Pro won't sleep after installing Lion

Hi,
I have just installed Mac OSX Lion last night. Everything worked out fine until I realized that everytime I close the Lid or Press Sleep from the Apple menu, it will not actually Sleep. After I open up the lid, I actually have to press the brightness of the light for the light to comes up. Or else its just going to be blank/black. During I close the lid, I could actually see that the light isn't actually breathing and I wonder how do I fix this? I have tried resetting the PRAM though.

I have the same issue with my MacBook.  I have it in a docking station hooked to an external monitor and after upgrading to Lion it will not go to sleep.  I can click the sleep button from the Apple menue, from the start menue where the password is entered, or even set up sleep hot corners and nothing works.  The only thing that worked for me was to take my computer out of the dock then restart.  Once I restarted I was able to put the computer to sleep, but only as long as it was no longer connected to the dock.  As soon as Lion recognizes there is an external monitor connected to my MacBook it prevents the sleep function.  I understand why they did this, because some people had issues with their computers going to sleep while plugged into an external monitor, but I'm not sure their solution is any better because they have now created several unnecessary steps for many people who use external monitors.  I hope Apple addresses this issue and comes up with a patch of some sort to give users the option to have it set up one way or another.  I'm also pretty ****** that they got rid of Front Row.

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