Comment 23 for bug 456916

I was actually able to fix this issue (very recently) with an edit to the grub config:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AspireTimeline/Fixes (Scroll down to "Suspend to RAM")
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1165087&page=74

However, still seems to me that the edit shouldn't be necessary, but my pain is gone.