Dual 2.3 Power Mac G5 sleeping problem

For sometime now my G5 has had a sleeping problem. I use evetv 500 to record tv shows. Most times I have been on the computer say 5 to 6 pm. I'll have it set to record at 7. The G5 will start up and record no problem, but the monitor will not go back to sleep, the whole system is almost locked up . I have found that the computer clock will be stuck at the time I let it sleep. If I move the mouse the clock will update, and the system will sleep.
Thanks for any help
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Hi,
I've experienced something similar a bit now and then. The most recent occurense of this was just a few minutes ago. Last thursday (june 21st), I set my Mac to record one show at 21.00 and one recording at 18.00 (every weekday on the 18.00 one), both recordings are one hour each. The ordinary "sleep when idle" function doesnt seem to work properly but I still set it at 15 minutes plus a scheduled sleep at 22.08. Now when just I came home the Mac was on though it shouldnt be. iStat in Dashboard gave me these figures:
Uptime 0d 4h 22min, up since 8.35 june 21
The only reaction I got when I tried to check the sleepsettings was a message telling me that the computer was scheduled to go to sleep in 9mins 55sec's and the System Preferences panel just bounced in the dock, every app that I tried to start just bounced in the dock. When I tried to restart it I got a message, after a while, telling me that Eyetv was keeping my Mac from going to sleep and trying to force quit it didn't seem to make much change. I finally turned the Mac off by pressing the powerbutton on the front.
I got the 18.00 recording on thursday but not on friday and no 21.00 recording from thursday. I thought the scheduled sleep would override the other setting...

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