APC UPS not recognised by Energy Saver in Snow Leopard

Hi I recently bought an APC Back-UPS ES 700G for my mid 2008 Mac Pro.
I had success testing the UPS on a mac at an Apple Store near where I bought the UPS - But Energy Saver on my home Mac Pro does not recognise that there is a UPS installed. - The UPS appears in System Profiler normally.
Im running Snow Leopard 10.6.8, from memory mac os x has inbuilt software that should detect the unit.
I will not that the mac I testsed the ups on was a MacBook Pro running Mavericks.
Any Thoughts on what's happened? I'd really like to have a unit that works.

Even worse to use it though! Use it for peripherals but do not use it for the Mac Pro itself - or put it on surge only might get you by for now.
http://www.amazon.com/CyberPower-CP1500PFCLCD-Sinewave-Compatible-Mini-Tower/dp/ B00429N19W/
I replaced all 4 of my APC units with various Cyberpower units (from 1000-1500VA, and some others for TVs and peripherals) throughout.

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