Wrong brightness after I wake up my MBP

hello,
my MBP 2.4 looses it's brightness settings when it goes to sleep. When waked up, brightness is ALWAYS two bars below maximum. Any ideas what's wrong?
regards,
R.Sklodowski

So, I've done some testing and it seems pretty random to me:) At least I've figured out, that if I select "automatically adjust for ambient light changes", in the evenings brightness is OK for me But I still can't force brightess to remain the same all the time (no matter what I do with display/energy options).
Have you got rid of this problem?

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