MacBook Pro won't stay asleep, treats shutdown as restart

My MacBookPro 13" in Snow Leopard 10.6.8 will not stay asleep. In the console, I see 10/17/11 6:09:28 AM kernel Wake reason = RTC, then all the networking comes up, a few other things, and it tries to go back to sleep again - writes out to the safesleep hibernation, then, boom. Awake again:
10/17/11 6:09:49 AM kernel Wake reason = RTC
Yes, 21 seconds later.
All night long. If it's not plugged in, it's dead by morning.
Yes, I've zapped PRAM and reset SMC.
It's not always like this, but when it is, and I attempt to shutdown, as soon as it turns off, it turns back on again. In my mind, that stinks of hardware.
Anyone?

Mine does that too. The worst thing is when it goes to sleep, then wakes up and keeps running while the lid is closed and it is wrapped up in a case. I am afraid when the hot weather comes it is going to burn up. I am hoping Apple fixes it in the software or they may have a melted MBP to replace.
Then when I open the lid it is crashed running at fill tilt, pumping out heat to beat the band. I am forced to hold the button down and reboot.
I wiped my hard disk and reinstalled my OS, but it didn't help. I reversed my OS to 10.5.0 and it solved the DVI problem but still won't sleep. This post will probably be deleted by Apple, they did it a few days ago. I just don't know what to do, and I consider myself a real Apple expert. Just hoping you realize you are not the only one.

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Try resetting the SMC. http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1411
I did a quick search on Google for, "pploader" ... check out this thread.
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More info here. http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=637798
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