Password required to wake display from sleep. Not working.

Up until recently, I had my powerbook set up to require a password to wake it from sleep (just the display, not the hard disks) ... All of a sudden, all I have to do is touch a key and it wakes up not requiring a password. I went into the "Energy Save" section and saw that my settings had been reset. Everytime I change it to require a password after 10 minutes of activity, and click on the "lock" to make change, it will reset itself to not require a password.
I've had my powerbook for over a year and it has never done this until now. I'm not sure why it would reset itself everytime I am out of the "Energy Save" section. Please help as I have sensitive information on my computer that requires a password.

I'm seeing this on my new Core Duo2 Mac Book Pro. Same kind of behavior. I'm trying to figure out if this is an OSX issue or a hardware sleep issue.

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http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/Sleep-and-hibernation-frequently-asked-questions
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Last edited by geeky_sh (2011-12-09 07:27:37)

Well, the above two links have the problem similar to mine but not exactly. In first one there is a problem with network manager - that it is unable to restart after coming from sleep mode while that is not a problem in my case and I tried all the solutions provided in the second link, but didn't work.
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button/lid)
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close)
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open)
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