All Mac Minis in my household cannot sleep and cannot shutdown wo rebooting

Hi everyone, I am hoping for community help here with a very annoying issue. Since upgrading to Snow Leopard 10.6.6 two Mac Minis in my household in Australia (and one 30,000 km away in Germany) refuse to go to sleep (instantly waking up) AND refusing to shut down, instantly rebooting.
They span 3 generations of Mac Mini (2011 = brand new, 2009, 2007) and all have the same problem. Some have no peripherals connected, others have plenty. I've already cleaned out all login items and any other unix daemons/schedulers that I thought should not be running from ancient apps that are no longer on these machines.
This only happened in 10.6.6 - my Macbook Pro is completely unaffected by this weird bug.
Many thanks for your help, cheers Klaus

Hmm, looks like I've solved the sleep problem. Paradoxically, ACTIVATING the "wake for network access" option in Energy Saver actually makes all my sleep functions (both timed and manually activated) work like a charm again go figure, at least on one of my machines (now trying it on the others)... still haven't solved the automatic reboot problem though....

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