BRAND NEW i27 KEEPS SHUTTING ITSELF OFF

Just bought the latest and apparently greatest in iMac desktop computers and I am getting frustrated cause the bloody thing keeps shutting itself down.
It is the i27 with 16gb ram, the i7 3.4 quad core with 768gig Flash and the graphics upgrade to 2gig g-force gtx 680. We didnt mess around with "should we"
It will be fine when using it but when you walk away from it, the screen saver comes on and it eventually goes to sleep. Now this is pi55ing my wife off no end as she uses automatic programs on farmville etc. Even when its running, it still opts for Screen saver, and sleep. When she wakes it up, low and behold she logs in and her automatic programs have stopped and I get the old "come and fix this stupid thing"
I have turned off every automatic shutdown and screensaver option I can find.
Now
I am starting to get pi55ed off.
Anyone got any sugegstions?

So you've gone to system prefences, energy settings, and moved the computer sleep slider to never but it still goes to sleep?
You can open terminal and type pmset -g to verify your sleep setting is 0 and not a number like 15 or 30...
You can also download the app caffine from the Mac App Store.  Install it and you'll get a coffee cup on the upper task bar.  Click it and your iMac will never sleep for sure.

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