Many programs hanging after computer wakes up from sleep

Hi!
Since teh upgrade to Snow Leopard (10.6) I experience many hang-ups / freezes on a variety of programs. I have traved this to I think only happenening after the MacBook has been sleeping. So put to sleep, wake up again, and at least the following froze (all have latest updates installed):
- Photoshop CS4 (hangs on welcome screen saying "Measuring Memory")
- Adobe InDesign CS4 (starts, becomes sluggish, and hangs when opening files or latest when trying to close requiring force quit; then doesn't start again)
- Adobe Illustrator CS4 (opens but freezes when trying to open a file)
- iTunes (never comes up, just keeps bouncing in the dock until the cows come home)
- Aperture 2.1.4 (shows splash screen and hangs then)
All work well after a fresh boot.
However, when I then try to restart the machine, it hangs before rebooting (my desktop background is still there, all other things gone, such as dock, menu bar etc). I have to switch it off the hard way (power button 5 sec or so) and restart. Then all works well until next sleep.
If anyone has ideas how to get around this I'd love to hear the answer. If you carry the MacBook around a lot, always rebooting makes it feel worse than Windows...
Cheers,
Hendrik

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Software is of poor quality. Not much more to say in this matter.
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In fact the internet connection was not broken as I could ping the destination usin the IP (not DNS name).
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I found a very interesting article dated 1996 about programming which I think is still valid.
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