Vista sleep problems- is this a fix?

I have railed about the sleep problems that I have started having on my Vista-based HP 2710p and also detailed what steps I have been taking to try to eliminate them.  You recall that my HP ran for months absolutely fine and then developed these sleep problems all at once recently.  I am still having trouble with various sleep functions including the HP crashing and rebooting while attempting to sleep.  The latest episode happened last night while the HP was sitting peacefully in the dock for a while and when it tried to sleep at the appropriate time it failed to do so and crashed with a reboot.  The good news is that when the device rebooted Vista did it’s "looking for a solution" thing and actually found a cause for the crashes:

Vista_cause

Yes, that’s right, Vista determined that the cause of the sleep problems is its own bad self.  Didn’t I state that I felt Vista was responsible for this problem?  I thought so.  Vista recommended that I apply the Microsoft hotfix in this KB article which I promptly did:

Vista_update

So far today I have experienced no sleep problems so I am crossing my fingers that this resolves them permanently.

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