Power saving mode freezing my mac book pro

Dear all,
i have a MacBook Pro 15" late 2009, which was coming with Snow Leopard.
I have two video cards installed, one GeForce 9400 for the longer battery life, and one GeForce 9600M GT for better performance.
Before installing OsX Lion both configuration were working perfectly, no any issue.
After the installation of Lion I can work only on high performance configuration.
If I choose the power saving config. after 3 to 5 minutes i get my system frozen, with the message that i must turn off my laptop by keep press the power button.
After reboot, i get automatically the high performance config, which has never shown this problem so far.
My question is: is a Lion problem with drivers for that graphic card? or is an hardware problem?
is there any way to solve this issue? I'm travelling on planes most of my time and a longer battery life span would help me a lot.
Now that i can choose only the high performance i got maximum 3 hours battery time, before with leopard in power saving config i had 5.5 hours.
Any idea???
Thanks in advance for your reply.
Marco

no one has a clue about this problem?
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