Why does my macbook Pro pinwheel after reopening from sleep?

          I have a 2.4 i5 MBP with 8GB Ram running 10.6.7.  It is attached to my work exchange server with authenicates my login and network. 
My problem is that often, but not always, when i reopen the lid of my MBP awaking it from an overnight sleep, programs are unresponsive and even basic finder/OS functions are not available, like force quit or system preferences.  The pinwheel usually starts when I click the wifi icon in the top bar.  The only way out of this is to hard reset the machine.  Today I had to hard reset it twice because even after a reboot the machine was unresponsive for a long period of time. (20 minutes maybe).
Could this be an exchange problem?  I never have trouble connecting to the exchange while the computer is awake, and i am connected to the ethernet and wifi.
Help!  If I go to the IT guy he'll just want to wipe my mahcine rather than troubleshoot.

Shutdown the machine nightly instead of using sleep.
Try running all of OnyX cleaning and maintenance features and rebooting.
http://www.titanium.free.fr/
Also use the Verify Preferences (check show only corrupted plist) and make  a not of which ones are bad, seek and move these to the desktop and reboot, they will automatically rebuild.
If everythign is fine, then move the bad plists to the Trash and empty.

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