Camaleon -- As far as I can recall, the crashes always occur some seconds after I wake the monitor from sleep, and usually I am downloading a web page in ice weasel (not too surprising, since I usually wake the monitor and check traffic reports first thing in the morning). I've never had a problem during login or immediately after login. I don't use any fancy desktop effects, though I do have a nice wallpaper of a garden photo. My screensaver is a blank screen.
I've posted the relevant syslog at http://pastebin.com/KeACjyEC, and my .xsession-errors at http://pastebin.com/YTrehGMt . I note that both my web browsers (ice weasel and sea monkey) produce a lot of warnings of the form: (firefox-bin:2532): Gdk-WARNING **: XID collision, trouble ahead Could that be related at all? Shall I go ahead and file a ticket with Debian? Thanks for all your help with this! -PT