MacBook shuts down after 2s of sleep

I've run out of ideas of how to fix a problem that started on the weekend.
It's an early 2009 2GHz MacBook running 10.6.7 with 5GB of ram.
The problem is that the laptop shuts down about 2 seconds after it goes to sleep.
Initially it was also shutting down after a minute of being left idle but that behaviour has stopped since I repaired the hard disk last night. It does however now beep (even if muted) and display the shutdown dialogue box after being left idle for a couple of minutes (it continues to give a prompt beep every couple of minutes, again even if muted).
Once shut down it won't respond to the power button unless I have disconnected both the power charger and battery for a few seconds. It will then restart from either the battery or power charger.
The shut down problem is the same with or without the battery onboard. Battery count is 163 and condition is reported as "normal" in Profiler.
I've tried starting from a fresh OS X install of both 10.6 and 10.5.6 on a USB drive but it still shuts down on sleep.
I've reset SMC, repaired permissions, repaired the disc (there were some errors that were repaired) and now run out of things to try.
The system.log shows the following when it shutdowns down while sleeping:
May 30 20:50:52 loginwindow[41]: loginwindow SleepWakeCallback WILL sleep
May 30 20:50:54 configd[14]: PMConnection mDNSResponder com.apple.powermanagement.applicationresponse.slowresponse 2047 ms
Any ideas?

If I recall correctly, MacBooks go into a mode of sleep called Hibernate by default. In this mode, the contents of the memory are saved to disk when the sleep starts. You can tell if this is happening by looking at the light on the front. If it stays fully on for 10 seconds or so then the computer is hibernating, otherwise it is just asleep.
Anyway, to stop rambling - maybe you should try toggling between normal sleep and hibernate to see if that makes any difference. Follow the instructions on this page:
http://danwarne.com/how-to-turn-off-slow-sleep-hibernate-mode-on-a-macbook-pro/
Bob

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