[brownstein]

I think we are making progress. This time (after adding that code to the script), it appeared to go into sleep mode except it left a blinking cursor in the top left corner of the screen, it seemed to resume fine but if I try to suspend again xbmc just freezes for 10-15 seconds and the seems to restart (only say that because it updates the library again). I neglected to mention that it was doing the same thing before I added that extra bit to the script. It seems to only try to suspend the first time, after that I have to reboot.

edit: so it wasn't me that resumed it, I rebooted and suspended again but just left it at the blinking cursor and waited, sure enough, it just seemed come back to xbmc after about 10 seconds.