Energy Saver Schedule is backwards

Hello everyone,
Does anyone have an issue with their schedule being backwards? I have my computer set to start up or wake everyday at 6:00 am and to shut down every day at 11:59 pm. I used to go to sleep knowing my computer was turning off and get up in the morning to have my computer - ready to use... but now for some reason, when I go use it in the morning, I notice the shutdown window is up stating that the computer is about to shut down unless I cancel. That should've happened at 11:59 pm. So, it seems that the computer is backwards somehow.
Is this a known bug with BootCamp and the fact that the Windows partition changes the clock? Once I reboot into OS X, the time auto corrects because I have it set automatically, so I'm not sure if thats correct or not?
Thanks in advance!
-JD

Test failed.
See my  iTunes Alarm 213 in Mac OS X v10.4 Tiger > Discussions for details of many failed solutions.
Somehow Energy Saver/Schedule failure is linked to recent failure of iTunes Alarm 213. It awoke my computer and played a radio station for several months but recently starting asking for admin password which it then rejected as incorrect (even tho password was OK elsewhere). Password change failed to solve problem. Would using AppleJack and CleanMyMac help? Using an OS on a maintenance CD to use Disk Utility/Repair Disk?

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    Jegdart: I have no intel-mac at home, but tested that too on a friends intel-mac. Set startup-time on MacOS, shutdown and indeed machine starts into windows. Later my friend said that it didn't work anymore after he had once booted into windows and shut it down before the startup time would kick in (startup-time settings lost?). I would be very gratefull if you/someone could verify this.
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    a tool like http://www.boraxsoft.de/CMOSTimer_eng.html will be able to poke thru and
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    thanx for your suggestions so far.

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