Automatic Start Up of Mac

Every so often I shut down by Mac. On a few occasions the Mac started up automatically at approx 5AM in the morning. Is there a setting I must change to stop this from happening?

It looks like you posted in the wrong forum. This question should have been asked here: http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=1110 , you'll have a better chance of getting the correct information when its in the right forum.
Try clicking the Apple in the top left corner of the screen> click System Preferences> click Energy Saver> click Schedule and see if you have a start time scheduled. If you do, just uncheck start up or wake and click OK.

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