PB Won't Stay Awake! Please help!

In November, I upgraded to Leopard and added additional memory. The computer has been running fine until about a month ago when the fan began to run longer with more noise. Now, my PB will just randomly go to sleep, and it is getting worse. It use to happen every 15 minutes or so. Now, it is every couple of minutes. I ran "Repair Permissions," and when it can finish, it fixed a few small things. What is happening to my PowerBook? How/Can I fix it? Thanks for any help you can offer!.

Hi Beau!
What size is the Hard Drive, and how much free space is available?
Insufficient available space, can cause performance issues, system corruption, and possible loss of data.
Depending on Mac system usage habits, it is a general recommendation, to keep 10% to as much as 20%, of the Total capacity, available at all times.
A 40 GB Hard Drive, should have 5 GB, available.
Review the suggestions, in the documents that I have linked to below.
Authored by Dr Smoke:
Problems From Insufficient RAM And Free Hard Disk Space
Freeing Space On Your Mac OS X Startup Disk
Have you ever run any routine Maintenance procedures, as suggested in the articles linked to below?
Mac OS X 10.3/10.4: System Maintenance, authored by Gulliver
Maintaining Mac OS X, authored by Dr Smoke
Is the Mac shutdown overnight, or does it run 24/7?
ali b

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