Sleep Freeze

My MBP is not going to sleep when I close the lid. When I open the lid the computer is froze and I have to do a hard reboot. This is a new development. Any thoughts on this?

My wife has a MBP unibody. Freezes all the time. No mouse movement, no beachball, just a total freeze. Used to happen a lot when clamshell-closed with an external monitor. Also happened frequently when she would leave it, screen saver would activate, then fans would be running high but no response.
I've read a LOT of message boards on the issue. It's frequently hard to narrow things down as so many people have different scenarios - Kingston memory (not me), different OS, different machines, external monitors, etc.
Genius Bar did full hardware diagnostics, found nothing. They did an archive-install, still happened.
So I've installed smcFanControl on the suggestion of a few forums and have eliminated all her freezes except 1. I was hoping that with higher fan speeds and a cooler mac that it wouldn't freeze anymore. If it DID freeze, then I'd see the last termperature in the menubar......but I got unlucky. The screen was asleep when it froze. However, that does still lend credibility to the theory that it is temperature related.
As for 10.5.7 and 10.5.6.....sounds like those of you who archived/installed up to 10.5.6 only don't have the problem. We are 10.5.7, and I'm not about to do another archive-install. However, based on the preponderance of the evidence. this sure sounds like 10.5.7 lets the temp get too hot and the things freezes. I'm going to put a targus cooling-pad under her machine as well to see if I can't get her internal fans to run less and keep it cool. HOpefully that will also continue to decrease the freezes.
We as a group of users really have to narrow this down and then get Apple to roger-up and fix the problem. THis is totally unacceptable. I have an original MBP (not the unibody) and it is a road-warrior. It has taken a lickin' and still tickin. I run it with about 2 GB of free hard drive space, it only has 2GB of memory, but it runs like a trooper I'm afraid to upgrade it because it sounds like the upgrade would be a downgrade.

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+Peter Hull+
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Hi bryan. Welcome to the Discussions.
1. You wrote: "When I wake my computer, it freezes when trying to reconnect to the wireless network. "
1.1. How do you know that the problem is specifically related to trying to reconnect to your home WiFi network, as opposed to some other potential cause of a wake-from-sleep freeze?
1.2. Are you using an AirPort base station or third-party base station? If third-party, what specific make and model?2. You wrote: "I've repaired permissions and repaired my disk from the install CD."DId Repair Disk find any errors, even those it may have corrected? If so, did you write them down?
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