Computer falls asleep while streaming content to ATV

WOAH! Now with iTunes 7.6.1, while watching streamed TV show from my firewire-attached HD to my iMac, the computer is allowed to fall asleep! Bad. Very bad. This has never happened before now. While watching ATV, 'content not found' message pops up the second the iMac goes to sleep. Anybody else getting this?

Click your Apple logo in the upper tool bar of your computer>Select system preferences>under hardware select energy saver>select NEVER under put the computer to sleep when inactive
Its a temporary fix I suppose

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