Standby of iMac under OS X Lion 10.7.1

I installed OS X Lion on my 20" 2009 Intel iMac and noticed a change of behaviour in standby. The transition into standby is now immediate but the standby state appears shalower than before - the screen is black but there some noise coming out from the machine, either the fan, the HD or both of them still work. An external USB self power 2.5" HD remains in "active" state indicated with a LED. Under Snow Leopard, the computer was appearing totally off and supposedly, it was consuming less energy and wearing out less internal components. Is there any way to restore the previous standby behaviour? Anything to configure? I could not find anything.
Does anyone experience the same thing?

Ok, in this case it sounds like it could be a Library issue. Now we need to boil it down to whether or not it is a User issue (only happens in your user account) or a System issue (happens on all accounts), and from there whether or not it is hardware or software. I would recommend creating a test user account (>System Preferences> Users and Groups> Addition button in lower left corner). Start up in the other account and try putting the computer to sleep again. If it works, great, that shows it is a user issue and I will do some further research as to how to fix that. If it is a system issue, it can be solved by going to the Finder application, clicking Command+Shift+G (a command to go to a window). If you then type in "/var/vm" without quotation marks, it will take you to the hidden folder where your computer's sleep image resides. If you then drag that sleep image file to the desktop (and authenticate using an admin password) it will then rebuild the sleep file for the computer.
Before you do any of this, I would recommend a SMC and PRAM reset if that has not yet been attempted. SMC deals with power controls on the computer and PRAM a few other system files. I have included the KBase articles in case you are not familiar with these resets.
SMC- http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3964
PRAM- http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1379

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