Problems going to sleep after 10.5 upgrade and new memory

Looking around the forums I notice lots of problems with sleeping computers and Leopard. Here's my story.
After upgrading my eMac with new memory (now at 1 GB) and Leopard, I have problems getting it to go to sleep after logging out. What happens is at the logout/login screen I click the sleep button, it goes gray for seven or eight seconds or so, then goes active again and the computer stays awake. I have to click-and-wait three times before the computer will sleep. It is a consistent bug in that I always have to click three times.
I figure this is more likely a Leopard problem than a memory problem. I bought the RAM off eBay but they are name-brand chips and haven't given me any problem.
Any thoughts?

Andy,
I would pull out to the new RAM upgrade and see if your sleep issue is hardware related. If your Mac still doesn't sleep correctly, I would try reloading OS X from your retail discs, then upgrade to 10.5.2 making sure you use the Combo Updater instead of Software Update.
Keith

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