Problems waking up

I have a Rev A 20" G5 which has been running without issue since purchase in March 05. Recently I have had three occasions where I went to wake the machine up from sleep mode and there was a problem. The first two times were a few days apart. When the screen restored it looked like it was slightly scrambled with flickering text and icons. Yesterday I experienced the gray screen with fans at 100%. I also have had a couple of Firewire lockups trying to read CF cards from my Lexar 1394 reader. No new hardware has been added or removed from the system. I am under Apple Care so I'm not worried. Doing daily backups to an external drive via SuperDuper as a safeguard.
Am I starting the death spiral? What should I do?
Thanks!

I have SuperDuper set to repair permissions before each backup (daily now), so I don't think this is a software issue. In fact last night I had another firewire hang while SuperDuper was trying to backup. I couldn't even shut down the system via the Apple menu and had to use the power button to shut down.
I ran the hardware test twice, first doing a short test, then the extended test. The only error reported was:
2STF/8/3 S-ATA Bus0 - Master
That only happened on the short test. With 2GB of RAM it took a long time for the extended test, but no errors. If the firewire hangs continue, it's going to the Apple store for repair.
Thanks!

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Hello, I've been having several problems with my iMac G5 that seemed to all start at the same time:
1/ The problem under discussion - compunter won't start up again after sleeping - fan, noise etc. OR screen image comes back but then distorts slightly, a dark gray washes over it, and a restart notice appears (also distorted).
2/ Trouble starting computer - during start-up the usual tone is heard, then a grey screen appears and the start up process stops. I am forced to restart and try again. After several attempts the computer makes it to the grey apple logo and it finally starts up. The computer works perfectly once it is finally on all of the way - except for the sleep thing.
I have tried the follwing techniques to fix the problems:
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- Tried starting holding down Option Key - had to shut down after endless wait
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I'm not sure what else I can do. I am, of course, aware of the "Repair Extension Program for Video and Power Issues" but as I live in Japan, outside Tokyo, it is going to be a long haul to get my computer in to be looked at.
Could this be fixed any other way by me? Or does this sound like a classic "G5 power/video issue" and I should just take it in?
Many thanks for your time in replying,
Corrie B.
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