I had a problem (i.e. past tense) with my 23” cinema display not coming out of sleep. I read multiple posts to find a solution. My problem was resolved when I changed my smaller iMac (not a solution I had in mind; it just happened) to a larger iMac (I forget sizing between the two).
Absent an Apple engineering fix, I believe people will need to find a ‘work-around’ from all those that have been posted in this discussion and others discussion boards on Apple’s site and in non-Apple technology blogs (just do a search via Google-it has been a long time so I forget).
For bkgd purposes, my CD is ~8 yrs old. I initially used with my ~8 yr old PwrPC laptop (which still works well, but is obsolete due to hardware). Two year ago, I purchased the smaller iMac to replace the laptop. One day (could have been a year later) the CD fails to come out of sleep. I concluded from reading discussion boards that it may be the ‘brick’ and purchased a used one.
Switching out the brick worked for a time, but I ran into same problem sometime later. After switching back to the old brick, I decided to keep the CD on constantly (i.e. no sleep mode, but had a screensaver come on).
Approximately 6 months ago I purchased the larger iMac and discovered that my CD comes out of sleep. Therefore, I conclude, there is not enough juice in some of the devices to kick the CD out of sleep, hence my belief that this is an Apple problem and should be solved free of charge by them.