Powerbook sleeps when blackberry recieves MMS

Here's a new one for me.
Last night as soon as I went to go read a freshly recieved MMS (video text message) on my blackberry storm, the computer went into a hard sleep. When I say a hard sleep - shut the network down, turned the keyboard off and went blank. I could only hold the power button down to turn it off and then turned it back on.
Upon investigation, it happens intermittently when I recieve or view a MMS. It's ALMOST consistent and only when the blackberry is resting near or on the powerbook. The Blackberry Storm was not connected to the powerbook in any way, either bluetooth or USB. There was NO active connections, physical or wireless, from either device.
Finally, I discovered that if I quickly moved the BB away from the PB, I was able to wake the computer up with a little coaxing.
This is just odd - any thoughts from the crowd would be appreciated. Obviously I need to keep the BB away from the PB, but this could be indicative of another problem. I'm not too worried because I plan to get a Macbook Pro in the coming weeks, but I'd still like to use the PB for some less CPU intensive applications.

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