Windows 7 T-series (T400) powermanagement issues?

Hey, I just clean upgraded my T400 from a very stable Vista32 Home Pre to a Windows 7 Ultimate hoping to reap the benefits of faster boot time and faster operation of notebook features (sleep & hibernate) among other thinigs.
Unfortunately I've noticed some problems with my new setup. My no 1 problem is the sleep is unstable. I've had two occasions now where I put the machine to sleep, and had the machine shut down instead, and upon reboot, windows recognizes it was shutdown unexpectedly, and seems to recover correctly.
It seems like the machine dies suspending or perhaps it suspends then dies. I didn't notice it both times, because the suspend operation is not instataneous.
Another problem which seems related is that I still get the Fn+Home/End brightness controls don't work sometimes. It's rare, (probably twice), but the killer here is that the "close the lid and open it again" does not solve the problem. Instead it shuts the screen off, and never comes back...and the only solution is to hold the power button.
These problems are really disconcerting, and from what I've heard from Windows 7, very unusual. So I'm confused and am wondering if anybody else has experienced anything like this.
Naturally I've updated to the very latest BIOS update, and tried to get all the latest drivers. I used System Update 4, but it seems to miss some of the updates (i.e. Power manager update, IBM PM device, Bluetooth update etc.) so I tried to update each component from the driver matrix...checking each one as much as I could.
I haven't been able to make any progress by looking through the eventviewer logs. Windows 7 has some nice power management troubleshooting logs, but nothing seems to be coming up as the problem.
Thanks in advance for any feedback!

&Re: Windows 7 - Audigy 2 ZS Mic Issues? The support pack does absolutely nothing to fix the mic issues.
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No, there are no tweaks.
If someone states that its driver improves sound quality and performance, you are being fooled, cheated.
It is even worse that the so called tweaks come from a person who is not EVEN technically acknowledged, does NOT know anything about Windows internals, software engineering and?sound?fidelity that all audiophiles always look for.
If you "feel" the sound better, that is the infamous placebo effect and there is no real proof that any tweaks work.
In fact, I have yet to see a driver that states in its release notes that it improves sound quality.
I've disassembled about every single .SYS driver, .DLL libraries and .EXE executables and found nothing.
There are some undocumented registry values, but nothing related to sound quality or performance.
Would the so called tweaks even exist, they would be in my Support Packs, you can bet that.
and
Microphone issues on Windows 7/Vista 64-bit (x64) with 4GB?of RAM or more
Audigy driver does not support 64-bit addressing, resulting in random issues with the Microphone (static, robotic or distorted voice, white noise).
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- install the 32-bit (x86) version of Windows
- limit the RAM available to Windows to less than 4GB
- enable Memore Hole in BIOS Setup, if?your motherboard supports the setting

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