My PowerBook has insomnia...

...ever since 10.4.7, it seems, my PowerBook 1.67 GHz PowerPC G4 won't go to sleep if I leave it idle with the lid open. It used to have no problems bedding down when I left it alone, but seems to have developed a case of insomnia with the new system update.
I am able to manually make it go to sleep, either by choosing Sleep from the Apple menu, or pressing ctrl+eject and choosing Sleep from the resulting window.
Also, if I shut the lid, the computer will go to sleep. However, if I leave it idle with the lid open, the screen will shut itself off at the proper time (I have both display and computer set to sleep after twenty minutes in the Sys Pref Energy Saver panel), but the sleep light never coems on, I can hear the hard drive still doing its occasional thing, and the computer remains at working temperature.
I also have Put hard disk(s) to sleep when possible checked in Sys Prefs.
I can't figure out what might have happened for the life of me, or how to remedy this.
Has anyone else experienced this problem, or heard of it? Any ideas for a fix?
Thanks in advance,
Chris

Hi Chris,
Go to Finder > Utilities > Activity Monitor
Run Activity Monitor and see if anything is running in the background. If you would rather, you can open Terminal and type TOP
Type Q to stop the process.
Also check in System Preferences and see if Classic might be running.
Anything else plugged into your book?
Joe

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