Tecra M10 WXP resumes in my bag without wake-up

My Tecra M10-ST9110 (PTMB3UTCFTGN) resumes from Standby spontaneously. Wake from Lan is deactivated - in fact all wake-on something (keyboard) have been deactivated. This happened a few times at night while docked but never inside my computer bag. Never say never, today in my computer bag she woke up until the battery was drained. I just hope that nothing fried inside (I am using it now to post this).
Anybody has any ideas. This must be a bug in BIOS.
Notebook goes to sleep and the amber heart beat is visible. I have not been able to reproduce this error successfully every time. It so seams that after putting the computer to a series of stantby cycles (5 or so) and finalizing in a complete shut down (just to shut down the computer once in a while), the first standby after turning the computer on (fresh boot) will wake up without reason.
I have heard about child illnesses but this starts to be ridiculous.
Cheers,
Bernhard

Nope it was the Wired Adapter.
I do not know how this optiong got checked. I hope this is it. If your computer wakes up without apparent reason:
Go to your network connections
Righ click the connection
Select Properties
Press the configure button on the Adapter
Go to the Power Management Tab
Un check the "allow this device to bring the computer out of standby"
My other Tecra M2 had this checked because it was updated at night by our administrator. I never turned on inside my briefcase.
Warning: Allowing this device to bring the computer out of standby may
cause this computer to periodically wakeup to refresh its network state. If
you travel with this computer or run it on a battery, you should not turn on
this feature as the machine may awaken at inopportune times or consume
the battery.

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> I was looking at the following BIOS update. which is version 3.00 and seems to be most recent. My own version is 1.90.
There are different Tecra M10 models on the market.
Check the labels at the bottom of the unit. There you should find some numbers like for example PTMB0E-01K00LGR
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I assume your notebook belongs to European series.
In such case you should check the Toshiba EU driver page for possible BIOS update.
http://www.toshiba.eu/innovation/download_drivers_bios.jsp
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