Suspend troubles

I never had much trouble getting 9.04 to suspend and the first install of Statler would suspend reliably - it'd even go to sleep automatically after the set time interval which I thought was really great. Then I borked it all up - I think installing Jupiter was what did it - and it came time for a bit of distro hopping followed by a reinstall.

With the reinstall it wouldn't suspend. Well it would but it always woke up after 12 seconds. I thought what had changed from before and the only thing I could think of was that I now had a swap partition and before I didn't. Interestingly the swap was never used no matter how hard I tried. Another interesting thing was I couldn't get the memory to go over 200MB even if I opened every application in the menu.

So I tried 'swapoff', still the same. I tried commenting out the swap in fstab and rebooting, still the same. Then I deleted the swap partition - I'd never got it to hibernate and I knew creating the swap for that was pushing my luck - now it's very interesting - it'll suspend when plugged in. When running off the battery it suspends then wakes up after 12 seconds.

I guess I should go for the reinstall. Unless anyone has any ideas. I was wondering whether to try something like this:
http://wiki.debian.org/Hibernation/Hibe … _Partition
Also someone mentioned Tuxonice - what's the procedure for installing that? I'm hitting the road tomorrow so I'm running out of options.