Wakes from sleep by itself

I have a 20" iMac (Intel Core 2 Duo) and an issue appears to have started after the recent software update (not sure if this is the culprit).
My iMac wakes unexpectedly after being at sleep (sometimes after 10 mins sometimes a bit longer). I have NO bluetooth devices attached (and bluetooth is off anyway) and I do not allow bluetooth devices to wake the computer.
I also have the "Wake for Ethernet..." unchecked. I have also tried to trash the com.apple.PowerManagement.plist file and rebooted. And also have run Onyx to fix permissions and run the maintenance scripts.
I just say someone on a different forum post that they too are having this problem with new iMac. Anyone hear of a fix or suggestions as to what may be the cause?

Steve,
Okay more advice. If you go to: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=1849881&#1849881
you can read the advice suggested but this one looked really helpful posted by Dale Welsshaar:
This is for a Mac that won't sleep.
First, read things in Apple doc.#25801 on sleep settings.
USB devices and hubs often cause Macs to not sleep or wake quickly from sleep (notably HP printers and scanners, HP all in ones, and Cannon scanners). Disconnect all USB except for keyboard and mouse and try. If it sleeps, add one back at a time testing after each one to find the culprit.
If you've set your Mac to recieve faxes, it may not be able to sleep. It might also have a damaged preferences file.
If you use your Mac for faxing, open System Preferences. click Print & Fax, click the Faxing tab, and uncheck the Recieve Faxes On This Computer box.
If that does'nt work or you've never faxed on your Mac, go to Finder/Hard Drive /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration and delete the com.apple.PowerManagement.plist and com..apple.AutoWake.plist files (if your Mac asks, type your admin. password).
If the latter file isn't present in the folder, go to user name(probably your name)/Library/Preferences, delete the com.apple.systemuiserver.plist file, and reboot your Mac.
Hope this helps!
P.S. One member here reported this (Michael Gleason);
"I have had this problem with my IMac G5. It is surprisingly irritating. LaCie's Silverkeeper backup software was the cause. By default it gave itself permission to wake up the computer to check if a backup was needed. Do you have this or a similar program installed which has scheduled activities including wake-up permissions as an option?"
Dave Hamilton provided this link, xlr8yourmac.com, to a member, which addresses failure of deep sleep with some users that updated and added new FireWire and USB cards.
Cheers!
DALE
Hopefully this will help you out even more,
S.

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I got a new MacBook some weeks ago. Works fine so far despite a little fact: It sometimes (randomly?) wakes from sleep (at night). Of course I usually sleep and won't notice anything. But happened 3 times by now that I woke (including last night) from the machines wake up noise (like when you open the lid). It goes back to sleep after a little while, so no real worries about that. But I find it rather strange waking up by itself. Is it possible there are any scheduled wake ups or something like that?
(My previous MacBook - which really had a lot of problems - showed a likely issue. It woke up directly after I put it to sleep. This was caused by some bluetooth problem. Well, this time the wake up issue is not that serious but I'm concerned as well. Do not want the current MacBook behave like the old one.)
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Apr 28 02:00:02 localhost kernel[0]: hibernate image major 14, minor 2, blocksize 512, pollers 4
Apr 28 02:00:02 localhost kernel[0]: hibernateallocpages flags 00000000, gobbling 0 pages
Apr 28 02:00:02 localhost kernel[0]: WLCE_COUNTRY_CODECHANGED
Apr 28 02:00:02 localhost kernel[0]: en1: 802.11d country code set to 'X3'.
Apr 28 02:00:03 localhost kernel[0]: en1: Supported channels 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 36 40 44 48 52 56 60 64
Apr 27 22:56:59 localhost kernel[0]: System SafeSleep
Apr 28 02:00:03 localhost kernel[0]: hibernatepage_listsetall start
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Apr 28 02:00:03 localhost kernel[0]: hibernatepage_listsetall found pageCount 186860
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Apr 28 02:00:03 localhost kernel[0]: IOHibernatePollerOpen(0)
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Apr 28 09:00:02 Van1lla kernel[0]: hibernatepage_listsetall time: 236 ms
Any explanations, help or suggestions regarding my problem? Do I need to be concerned? (Can not really return the MacBook to Apple as I'm writing my master thesis at the moment..) Or is that normal behaviour? Let me know if you need more details about the machine or this post ended up in the wrong category.
Thanks for your help and best regards!
--Markus

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