Wake from sleep black screen.

Since the last "Security update" install my iMac G5 has a problem when I try to wake up. The sleeping light goes off but the screen remains black. I tried holding the power button to reboot. But, it doesn't work. I have to unplug the iMac to reboot. I unchecked the "put computer to sleep when possible" option. Ran permissions repair and daily, weekly and monthly scripts. And still problem. I use Time machine but only when I back up. If I do restore to last save. Will my current data be wiped?
Help,
Donald

Update
I thought I would try something that has been used in many trouble shooting situations where there might be a hardware or software problem with the computer. Creating a new user account. While I do have another account to sign into on this computer. I chose to simply "log out" and let the computer go to sleep and later see if it wakes up. Sure enough it does wake up. And acts normally. I'm not sure if logging out is the same as another user account.
What if there is something in my main account causing the "wake from sleep" problem. Outside of "permissions" and "running scripts" to clean up accounting. What can I use to trouble shoot which situation is causing this? I've used a couple of pref checkers but with no luck. Log doesn't show what happens while computer is a sleep. Only reports time it went to sleep. And nothing about trouble waking up. I have seen a lot of wrong permissions in cups iofn the reports. And there are not fixed when trying to repair. Especially, in the Colorsync first aid.
Any advice? Or should I wait for 10.5.6 to see if it corrects my problem before I reinstall software?
Donald
P.S.-the only software I have installed with nightly builds is the WebKit for Safari. It is much faster than Safari. Not sure why Safari is slugging/slowing it.

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Update
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Resolution
Move the mouse or trackpad cursor over the center area of the login window so you can see the user icons. Click on the icon of the user that you would like to login as, type in the user's password, and press Return.
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2. Open System Preferences > Energy Saver and configure Display Sleep to occur after the account is logged out, by dragging the slider to a number of minutes that is greater than N was set to in the previous step.
Important: If automatic log out is not needed, disable "Log out after Nminutes of inactivity" in System Preferences > Security & Privacy > General. This will also prevent the issue.
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS4135?viewlocale=en_US
http://km.support.apple.com/library/APPLE/APPLECARE_ALLGEOS/TS4135/TS4135_01-osx _1072-login_window-001-en.png

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Numerous hard restarts (holding the "sleep/wake" button with the volume - button).
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panic(cpu 0 caller 0x001A49CB): Unresolved kernel trap (CPU 0, Type 14=page fault), registers:
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Backtrace, Format - Frame : Return Address (4 potential args on stack)
0x47e93888 : 0x128d0d (0x3cc65c 0x47e938ac 0x131f95 0x0)
0x47e938c8 : 0x1a49cb (0x3d2a94 0x0 0xe 0x3d22b8)
0x47e939d8 : 0x19b3a4 (0x47e939f0 0x0 0x47e93a08 0x131f48)
0x47e93b58 : 0x37f719 (0x109380 0x5f4e6000 0x0 0x9)
0x47e93c18 : 0x1ac378 (0x3190ca1e 0x2304 0x0 0x120)
0x47e93c48 : 0x61a3ce (0x61a1ae 0x3 0x64b160 0x0)
0x47e93ca8 : 0x60f446 (0x65d8600 0x2 0x47e93c7c 0x0)
0x47e93cc8 : 0x3ac373 (0x6632300 0x4b063c 0x3 0x4ef000)
0x47e93d08 : 0x3bb728 (0x65d8600 0x3f2688 0x6608f48 0x3920b5)
0x47e93d48 : 0x394a8f (0x6608b00 0x4 0x1d 0x2)
0x47e93d88 : 0x394fc5 (0x6608b00 0x0 0x47e93dc8 0x0)
0x47e93da8 : 0x395ea4 (0x6608b00 0x654fc00 0xb 0x1)
0x47e93de8 : 0x394fee (0x6608b00 0x6651780 0x47e93e28 0x0)
0x47e93e08 : 0x395ea4 (0x6651a80 0x654fc00 0xb 0x1)
0x47e93e48 : 0x394fee (0x6651a80 0x6695200 0x47e93e88 0x0)
0x47e93e68 : 0x395ea4 (0x6695e80 0x654fc00 0xb 0x1) Backtrace continues...
Kernel loadable modules in backtrace (with dependencies):
com.apple.driver.AppleACPIPlatform(1.0.10)@0x60e000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.2)@0x5fa000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOACPIFamily(1.2.0)@0x60a000
Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 8.11.1: Wed Oct 10 18:23:28 PDT 2007; root:xnu-792.25.20~1/RELEASE_I386
Model: MacBookPro3,1, BootROM MBP31.0070.B07, 2 processors, Intel Core 2 Duo, 2.2 GHz, 4 GB
Graphics: GeForce 8600M GT, GeForce 8600M GT, PCIe, 128 MB
Memory Module: BANK 0/DIMM0, 2 GB, DDR2 SDRAM, 667 MHz
Memory Module: BANK 1/DIMM1, 2 GB, DDR2 SDRAM, 667 MHz
AirPort: spairportwireless_card_type_airportextreme (0x168C, 0x87), 1.3.5
Bluetooth: Version 1.9.5f4, 2 service, 1 devices, 1 incoming serial ports
Network Service: AirPort, AirPort, en1
PCI Card: pci168c,24, sppci_othernetwork, PCI Slot 5
Serial ATA Device: FUJITSU MHW2160BHPL, 149.05 GB
Parallel ATA Device: HL-DT-ST DVDRW GSA-S10N
USB Device: Built-in iSight, Apple Inc., Up to 480 Mb/sec, 500 mA
USB Device: Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad, Apple Computer, Up to 12 Mb/sec, 500 mA
USB Device: IR Receiver, Apple Computer, Inc., Up to 1.5 Mb/sec, 500 mA
USB Device: Bluetooth USB Host Controller, Apple, Inc., Up to 12 Mb/sec, 500 mA
Any help would be fantastic.
Thanks.

the settings are done via Terminal commands or through a widget (i know there is "deepsleep" and i think another)
you should be able to find the terminal command through reading about the different sleep modes, if not try goggling "changing sleep mode on mac" and that should show you. if you cant find it let me know and ill try to dig it back up.
the MBPs are standard with safe sleep, the older lap tops used quick sleep. there is not way to change them through the standard system in a GUI, it has to be done via code (very easy because you can just copy and paste it in)
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