final word on the sleep issue

[Scott Howell]

Folks, finally made a tun of progress on the sleep issue and thanks  
to Justin who was good enough to test and report back to me his  
success with the test.
I found that reinstalling did fix whatever the hell went so wrong,  
but what I did learn was that one particular option can have a  
significant impact on the entire process.
By checking the option Require password to wake this computer from  
sleep or screen saver which is found in System Preferences/Security,  
you in fact get some interesting results.
If this box is checked and you put your computer to sleep two things  
happen. First if you just hit a key or press the mouse, the machien  
wakes up and expects a password, if none is entered, the machine will  
go back to sleep within 10-15 seconds. The second thing to note is  
that if you set your machine to wake at a particualr time, or run  
some shceduled event with thsi checkbox checked, the machine will  
wake as expected, but because you haven't entered a password, the  
machine will go back to sleep within again, 10-15 seconds. Thus, if  
you wanted to run some cron job or other event, but maintain  
security, you can't.
So, I've suggested to Apple that they modify this behavior to run an  
event without user input and not allow the machine to go to sleep.  
Now how they will accomplish this, I do not know, but its a show  
stoper if you choose to use the sleep function. So I learned a lot  
during this process and wanted to share the results with you all.

Scott