T61p power down while idle in docking station

Hi,
I have a weird problem with my T61p. I work for hours when the laptop is docked, then I leave it alone for a few minutes and when I come back it is powered down. There is no indication that it shuts down Windows XP cleanly, since unsaved work disappears. It appears as if it shuts down as if I would hold the power button.I have the same problem with my docking stations at home and at work.
Any help would be appreciated!
Thanks, cj

Thanks  KiDYu, unfortunately it didn't help....
Getting back to this 4 month old problem (actually, 1 year old problem...). I have been trying many different things (driver updates, monitoring temp, using TPFanControl to monitor/control fan).... nothing helps. When I work with my laptop docked everything is great, when I go get a coffee I come back and it's powerd off.
My typical temp (right now, after using it, Pandora running in the background) while docked is  CPU 81 celsius, gpu 78, pwr 69. Seems to be within reasonable limits. Also it doesn't seem like the temp should go up when I'm NOT using the laptop, so I doubt this is a overheating problem.
My best guess is that something in the power management software detects "idle" after some minutes and tries to do something thereby causing a power-down.
I have found another thread in a different forum where somebody has the same problem with a X61:
http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?f=30&t=69643
Any help would be greatly appreciated, this is really annoying.
 cj

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