MBP no sleeping mode while charging!

hi all,
my MBP doesn't go into the sleeping mode when I close it while it is charging! How can I change this?

We have probably deployed about 200 of the 15" MacBook Pro systems so far, and have only seen the issue on a handful of them. Fortunately the issue was discovered when the systems were imaged and had not yet been deployed. If you are having the issue, I would recommend that you report it to Apple.
Some people online were reporting that installing the NVIDIA Graphics Update 2009 (http://support.apple.com/downloads/NVIDIAGraphics_Update2009) would fix this problem. The update however was only available online briefly and then was pulled without explanation.
I really don't see how this would help though as we are not seeing the issue with all systems we are receiving. I figured there must have been a bad batch of 9400's that made it to production. It is really concerning if people are seeing the same thing on the new 17" models as well.

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