Won't wake, tried everything - need someone smarter!

My Intel iMac running 10.5.6 had been working fine since late 2007, but has recently had problems waking up. Holding down the power button does nothing - black screen, no fan or drive noise. The only way I can get it to reboot is to unplug it for a few hours. Things I've already tried to resolve this:
1) Reset SMC several times by unplugging for extended periods - will reboot, but problem comes back (i.e., will go to sleep then may or may not wake)
2) Did a disk check - nothing to repair
3) Rebooted, resetting the NVRAM - no improvement
4) Did a complete erase and reinstall of Leopard, moving only files over from my TM drive (not profile or apps); upon reinstall of the OS, the only app I loaded on was Photoshop CS4
5) Bypassed my power strip, plugged straight into the wall (running short on ideas...)
It has occasionally gotten hung on rebooting (gray screen, black screen - hence the extended unplug period to fix) and once it gave me the file folder and question mark icon on startup, but subsequently completed boot up. The only sure way at this point to get the machine to work, is to unplug it for several hours.
Any guesses? Hardware or software?
Thanks!

Hi Texas Mac Man!
I did not update firmware when I originally looked into upgrading to OS X because there was some incompatibility problem I read about when reading about firmware so I decided against upgrading. My daughter has a newer iMac with OS X so I tried a copy of her disks to see if I could get it to boot up. So I don't believe the OS X is on the iMac but I'm not positive.
Looks like it will take me a little while to read through the tutorial and find which battery and get it but I won't mark this answered just yet.
I am very happy to have heard from a local Mac person!! I didn't know where to go for help. Are you a service person or just a helpful person? If I can't get it working, I will need to go to someone who can fix it.
Thanks!!
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