Laptop sleep, laptop wake up, laptop sleep...
Mikal just enlightened me on the wonders of ACPI suspend...
Here I was thinking I was going to have to totally reinstall my laptop because I hadn't made my swap partition big enough, and I was using LVM and was all out of partitions, and all I had to do was put a 3 in /proc/acpi/sleep! Sheesh...
A quick bit of extra hackery to acpid and now when I close the lid, my laptop takes a snooze. I'm so happy. I really need to read up on the ACPI thing...