MBP Wakes From Sleep With Lid Shut

My MacBook Pro (only about 1 1/2 months old) wakes from sleep while the lid is shut. I close the lid to put the computer in sleep mode and wait until it has fully entered sleep mode (the white light pulsates). If I then pick the computer up and rotate it some, more often than not it sounds as if the hard drive kicks back on and the apple logo on the top of the screen briefly illuminates. Sometimes I have even noticed that the screen will illuminate; however, the most consistent things I've noticed are the hard drive and logo. This is all while the lid is still closed.
I spent around 1 1/2 hours on the phone with Apple support yesterday with no result. I thought I would see if anyone has an explanation or idea here before I send the computer off to Apple.

Hi again,
your statements that the workaround does not "work around"
on your machines confuses me a bit. It looks like the changes
in the com.apple.PowerManagement file don't produce the desired
effect.
First question: Did you restart your computers after having
applied the changes ? If not, try this first.
Can it depend on the model of MBP (I have the new Santa Rosa) ?
If I save the file as an ASCII file it looks like this:
ActivePowerProfiles = {"AC Power" = -1; "Battery Power" = -1; };
"Custom Profile" = {
"AC Power" = {
"Automatic Restart On Power Loss" = 0;
"Disk Sleep Timer" = 0;
"Display Sleep Timer" = 0;
"Display Sleep Uses Dim" = 0;
"Hibernate File" = "/var/vm/sleepimage";
"Hibernate Mode" = 3;
"Mobile Motion Module" = 1;
"System Sleep Timer" = 0;
"Wake On AC Change" = 0;
"Wake On Clamshell Open" = 0;
"Wake On LAN" = 0;
"Battery Power" = {
"Disk Sleep Timer" = 10;
"Display Sleep Timer" = 5;
"Display Sleep Uses Dim" = 1;
"Hibernate File" = "/var/vm/sleepimage";
"Hibernate Mode" = 3;
"Mobile Motion Module" = 1;
ReduceBrightness = 0;
"System Sleep Timer" = 15;
"Wake On AC Change" = 0;
"Wake On Clamshell Open" = 0;
System Profiler says:
Einstellungen für Stromversorgung des Systems:
Netzbetrieb:
Ruhezustand des Systems (nach Anzahl von Minuten): 0
Ruhezustand der Festplatte (nach Anzahl von Minuten): 0
Ruhezustand des Monitors (nach Anzahl von Minuten): 0
Bei Stromverlust automatisch neu starten: Nein
Ruhezustand bei Änderung der Stromversorgung beenden: Nein
Ruhezustand beim Öffnen des Computers beenden: Nein
Ruhezustand bei administrativen Netzwerk-Zugriffen beenden: Nein
Zum Ruhezustand des Monitors den Monitor abdunkeln: Nein
Batteriebetrieb:
Ruhezustand des Systems (nach Anzahl von Minuten): 15
Ruhezustand der Festplatte (nach Anzahl von Minuten): 10
Ruhezustand des Monitors (nach Anzahl von Minuten): 5
Ruhezustand bei Änderung der Stromversorgung beenden: Nein
Ruhezustand beim Öffnen des Computers beenden: Nein
Zum Ruhezustand des Monitors den Monitor abdunkeln: Ja
Helligkeit verringern: Nein
(German only, sorry)
And - I checked it just a minute ago - i works ! My MBP
goes to sleep when lid is shut and does NOT wake, when I
open the lid. After pressing a key, it comes to life again.
Regards,
Robert
P.S. Please have a look at the files in the
Library/Preferences/System Configuration Folder.
Is there only one file for Energy preferences or
did your system create another one, when you tried
to change settings via System Preferences ? I saw
this one time a few weeks ago, but I don't know
the exact conditions under which that happened.
Message was edited by: gandalf22

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