T61s shutting down on their own

I've seen several complaints lately of T61 laptops deciding to shutdown on their own. The user's will be in the middle of working on them and they start to end programs and then logoff and shutdown. They seem to hang at the "saving user's" settings for quite a while. I've had about 10 machines do this now and there doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason to when it happens. They are all running XP. Has anyone else seen this?

Mike73,
Are you running the factory preload or a custom image? Are the users actively using the machines, or returning to them when this is triggered? (There is a discussion, possibly related, on T400/T500 systems that seem to be triggered most often by unlocking windows)
The hardware is different, but if there has been some common software elements, so I'm curious....
Do you have a formal situation opened on this? If not, and you need help, please send me a private message.
Best regards,
Mark
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