Not going to sleep after Leopard?

I never had any problem getting my computer to sleep with Tiger, but there seems to be a persistent problem since I installed Leopard. I think it's taking a long time to go to sleep when I close the lid. I've noticed that if I close the lid on, say, an 80% battery charge I'll come back and open the lid to find the battery drop to 50%!. Also, if I close the lid on anything less than about 20% battery I'll come back to find the computer unable to wake. I'll have to plug it in and restart, I'll get an OSX Unexpectedly Quit dialog on startup and find the battery at 0%. My battery is *brand new* and works fine when awake. What's wrong?

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Move the mouse or trackpad cursor over the center area of the login window so you can see the user icons. Click on the icon of the user that you would like to login as, type in the user's password, and press Return.
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Hello everyone,
I'm facing the same syptom. I tried many things and now havw to live with putting the MacBook to slee by hand. I had some other issues just before that:
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