Suspend with Dell Inspiron 1720 and Nvidia closed source drivers

Hey all! I'm really liking arch linux. That being said, it would be nice if I could get suspend to ram (or disk) working on my laptop (dell Inspiron 1720 with Nvidia geforce 8800m) .
I followed the directions on the wiki for pm-ultils. When I try pm-suspend, my devices like mice and external HD's shut off, but all I get is a black screen with a blinking undercursor - the system does not appear to really suspend. Nothing will bring the system back, and I have to hard reboot.
I tried insatlling uswsusp and followed the directions for that, but get the same result. Here is my /var/log/pm-suspend.log:
Initial commandline parameters:
Wed Mar 11 15:17:58 PDT 2009: Running hooks for suspend.
/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/00auto-quirk suspend suspend: Adding quirks from HAL: --quirk-vbe-post
success.
/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/00logging suspend suspend: Linux FancyHotel 2.6.28-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Sun Feb 22 11:03:50 UTC 2009 i686 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T7300 @ 2.00GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
Module Size Used by
nls_cp437 7424 0
vfat 12800 0
fat 50592 1 vfat
ipv6 260340 12
fuse 53020 2
ext2 66184 1
btusb 13464 0
bluetooth 54372 1 btusb
usblp 13952 0
hid_logitech 11392 0
ff_memless 6792 1 hid_logitech
usbhid 36640 1 hid_logitech
hid 40704 2 hid_logitech,usbhid
uvcvideo 57736 0
compat_ioctl32 3072 1 uvcvideo
ext3 127112 1
videodev 34176 1 uvcvideo
v4l1_compat 15364 2 uvcvideo,videodev
jbd 46996 1 ext3
joydev 11712 0
mmc_block 11012 1
usb_storage 95552 1
snd_seq_oss 31872 0
snd_seq_midi_event 8192 1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq 49968 4 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_seq_device 8204 2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
snd_pcm_oss 40192 0
snd_mixer_oss 16512 1 snd_pcm_oss
sdhci_pci 9088 0
sdhci 17028 1 sdhci_pci
arc4 3712 2
ecb 4608 2
ohci1394 31280 0
mmc_core 46876 2 mmc_block,sdhci
psmouse 55828 0
uhci_hcd 24592 0
b44 28560 0
ssb 40964 1 b44
pcmcia 35532 1 ssb
pcmcia_core 34452 2 ssb,pcmcia
mii 6528 1 b44
iwl3945 91128 0
rfkill 11596 2 iwl3945
mac80211 161184 1 iwl3945
led_class 5508 1 iwl3945
nvidia 7227388 0
snd_hda_intel 412980 0
snd_pcm 70020 2 snd_pcm_oss,snd_hda_intel
snd_timer 21384 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc 10120 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
snd_hwdep 9092 1 snd_hda_intel
snd 50852 9 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_hwdep
serio_raw 7172 0
ehci_hcd 36876 0
ricoh_mmc 5632 0
ieee1394 79940 1 ohci1394
wmi 7848 0
video 18704 0
output 4608 1 video
cfg80211 31760 2 iwl3945,mac80211
soundcore 8160 1 snd
sg 26804 0
usbcore 136848 8 btusb,usblp,usbhid,uvcvideo,usb_storage,uhci_hcd,ehci_hcd
intel_agp 27836 0
agpgart 31572 2 nvidia,intel_agp
ide_cd_mod 38152 0
cdrom 35360 1 ide_cd_mod
i2c_i801 10896 0
i2c_core 22804 2 nvidia,i2c_i801
iTCO_wdt 12836 0
iTCO_vendor_support 4996 1 iTCO_wdt
dcdbas 9120 0
evdev 11296 9
thermal 17180 0
fan 6276 0
button 7824 0
battery 12036 0
ac 6020 0
cpufreq_powersave 3456 0
cpufreq_ondemand 8972 2
acpi_cpufreq 9868 0
freq_table 5632 2 cpufreq_ondemand,acpi_cpufreq
processor 41388 4 thermal,acpi_cpufreq
rtc_cmos 12332 0
rtc_core 17564 1 rtc_cmos
rtc_lib 4480 1 rtc_core
ext4 218268 2
mbcache 8708 3 ext2,ext3,ext4
jbd2 55192 1 ext4
crc16 3712 1 ext4
sd_mod 26904 7
ahci 30988 4
libata 157856 1 ahci
scsi_mod 102164 4 usb_storage,sg,sd_mod,libata
piix 8200 0
ide_core 103112 2 ide_cd_mod,piix
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 2073576 984996 1088580 0 141968 741552
-/+ buffers/cache: 101476 1972100
Swap: 1052248 0 1052248
success.
/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/00powersave suspend suspend: success.
/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/01grub suspend suspend: not applicable.
/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/11netcfg suspend suspend: success.
/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/49bluetooth suspend suspend: not applicable.
/etc/pm/sleep.d/50-hdparm_pm suspend suspend: success.
/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/55NetworkManager suspend suspend: success.
/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/55wicd suspend suspend: success.
/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/75modules suspend suspend: not applicable.
/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/90chvt suspend suspend: success.
/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/90clock suspend suspend: not applicable.
/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/94cpufreq suspend suspend: success.
/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/95led suspend suspend: not applicable.
/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/98smart-kernel-video suspend suspend: success.
/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/99video suspend suspend: kernel.acpi_video_flags = 0
success.
Wed Mar 11 15:17:59 PDT 2009: performing suspend
I have not put anything my /etc/pm/config.d/ because the wiki was pretty vague and Im not sure what to do there.
I tried using uswsusp s2ram but that does not work. I added uresume to my /etc/mkinitcpio.conf and rebuilt the image to no avail.
s2ram -n shows this:
Machine matched entry 99:
sys_vendor = 'Dell Inc.'
sys_product = 'Inspiron 1720 *'
sys_version = ''
bios_version = ''
Fixes: 0x0
This machine can be identified by:
sys_vendor = "Dell Inc."
sys_product = "Inspiron 1720 "
sys_version = ""
bios_version = "A08"
See http://suspend.sf.net/s2ram-support.html for details.
If you report a problem, please include the complete output above.
which looks to me like I am whitelisted. Am I missing something here? Should I be using one of the DM's power managers? It would be cool just to be able to suspend with a command but if I have to use something else no problem as long as it works.
Running out of ideas, hope you guys can help. Plus the hard rebooting is wrecking my drive, I can see the non-contiguous percent rise each time.
Thanks.

I know this is an old thread and i shouldn't be posting but i have been looking EVERYWHERE for anybody that has successfully installed an 8800M inside of an inspiron 1720... i was just wondering how you went about it???
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