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Summary: 
Sometimes, upon closing my MacBook (Jan. 2008) and opening the lid back up, OS X decides to act very strange.

Steps to Reproduce:
1.) Shut MacBook's lid.
2.) Open MacBook's lid.
3.) Wait for it to wake up.

Expected Results:
Everything to appear and function as it did before I closed the lid.

Actual Results:
- The menu bar switches to opaque. 
- No icons are shown on my desktop. They appear in the Finder window when I browse to ~/Desktop.
- The cursor turns into a fuzzy little white / black box until a program explicitly changes the cursor. I used the screen capture utility to turn it into the camera then back into the pointer.
- If the MacBook is plugged into an external display, then resumed from sleep, the dekstop wallpaper on the MacBook is changed to the default Aurora.

Regression:
I'm running 10.6.2 on a MacBook3,1 (Jan. 2008). 

Notes:
System Profiler Report and screenshot is attached.