Pismo shuts down while asleep. PMU cause -96?

Hi. My Pismo has recently started to shutdown unexpectedly while asleep. Since it's intermittent, I can't really tell if it realy goes to sleep and then shuts down or if it just dies when I close the lid, but not only MacOSX took notice of a forced shutdown (and offered to report it to Apple, but the CrashReporter never came up), it also had a line in system.log with "localhost kernel[0]: ApplePMU::PMU forced shutdown, cause = -96".
Now, I know that ApplePMU messages seem to be some kind of state secret at Apple and that several guys with G5s are having problems with cause -122, but does anyone have any experience with this?
I've only been noticing it lately because I have a new battery and now I keep it sleeping far longer than before, because my old battery only had 5 minutes of life in it and this Pismo was basically chained to a wall.
Powerbook G3 Firewire Mac OS X (10.4.5) 1GB RAM, 40GB HD, Airport

Tiago,
I don't know what the error -96 represents, but I have seen the same PMU Forced Shutdown with numbers like -122 and -127 (again, no info).
I would reset the power manager and PRAM, then test.
You mentioned not knowing if it crashes or shuts down immediately; if you see the pulsing sleep light, it still is sleeping normally.
Does this issue occur only on battery or also when connected to the power adapter?

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Five months ago, my MacBook Pro 15'' (2.53Ghz) started showing me the message 'Service Battery'. I took it to an Apple Store and I was told that everything is still fine. Nevertheless, for the past 2 months my laptop shuts down while running on battery (with 20% and 40% levels of charge) periodically. This does not happen every time.
Does anyone know if AppleCare covers this failure?
Is there any other way to fix this?
Thank you,
George

Mine does the same thing. May i suggest downloading istat pro to look at the health of your battery.
http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/status/istatpro.html
Also do you calibrate your battery?
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1490
I had never done that but after 15 months and 450+ cycles I was experiencing the same problem. I am a heavy user of my mbp 15" (2.4Ghz). After calibrating my health in istat which was going between 30-53 % Is holding steady around 65-mid 70% health wise. I have also noticed that my battery icon has gone from service battery to replace now to holding at replace soon for the time being.
I am not sure how many cycles you can get out of one battery but as far as i know 700ish is good. While i wish i was closer to an apple store (3ish hrs or more) i do hope i have helped you.

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