Sleep interferes with Time Machine and file writes to FW800 drives

I have leopard installed now on 5 systems. If a system goes to sleep while i am either copying files to an external firewire 800 drive or using time machine for its initial backup to the firewire 800 drive the file copy/write will get hung up and not resume when coming out of sleep. I have also had a problem where the screen gets crazed and locks up while writing to external drives and the sleep state.
I have gone in and selected never as the sleep frequency and this has all stopped.
I did not have this problem writing to the same Firewire 800 drives with TIGER.
Anyone else seeing this problem?

I am having a very similar problem. Time Machine starts up fine (albeit a little slow). It starts backing up files. I have the machine set to not go to sleep and I have the option to put drives to sleep turned off. I do have the screen saver kick in after 30 mins, though. As soon as that happens, the backup process seems to halt.
FWIW, I am backing up to an external FW800 drive. I have a FW400 enclosure I can try. I'll give that a whirl later tonight.
This is very annoying. Very un-Apple.
--DotComCTO

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