So, it turns out that linux 2.6.17 finally corrected whatever was wrong in the sata driver with acpi S3 sleeping (S3 is suspend-to-ram). I've been using it for a while now, and it's been suspending and waking up very reliably so far. That makes everything on my configuration of the D610 working quite well, now. (I do need that startup script to set the BIOS to support the 1440x1050 resolution, but setting that up wasy easy enough after I found it.)
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