Shutting off the screen

Hi I switched to Mac from Compaq (laptop) about 6 months ago. One feature i used to use with the PC laptop was being able to shut my computer screen only when I closed the lid on my laptop. The default setting was to put the computer to sleep, but I just wanted to be able to close the the laptop (and basically save the screen from being on, and emitting light) whilst having the normal power safe rules apply.
Is there anyway i can do this with my mac book pro?
At present if I close the lid on my mac book pro it goes to sleep
The main issue I have here is what if I'm down loading something or it's doing a back-up with Super Duper. I just want to be able to have the screen off whilst this is happening thus going to sleep is not a good option
any ideas?
cheers
Bishan

Some people have used Insomniax or Caffiene to do this. I agree with Sig, I like to just set my screen to go to sleep in a few minutes and have the computer sleep off. Sometimes I download something after I go to bed that may take a few hours. With it set this way I can just tap the space bar see what the progress is and in a few minutes the screen turns off again.

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