Imac turns itself on everyday at 7pm with no scheduled start up

In the energy saver schedule there is no startup time.
The restart after power fail is unchecked.
Everyday at 7pm it just turns on. NOT wakes up, it actually turns on and boots up. My time zone is US central (-6 GMT).
here is my computer information.
OSX 10.5.3
Model Name: iMac
Model Identifier: iMac6,1
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2.16 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache: 4 MB
Memory: 3 GB
Bus Speed: 667 MHz
Boot ROM Version: IM61.0093.B07

Here are the first few items in the logs:
6/28/08 7:00:20 PM kernel npvhash=4095
6/28/08 7:00:19 PM com.apple.launchctl.System[2] launchctl: Dubious ownership on file (skipping): /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.transmediacorp.GlideSyncServer.plist
6/28/08 7:00:20 PM com.apple.launchctl.System[2] launchctl: Please convert the following to launchd: /etc/mach_init.d/dashboardadvisoryd.plist
6/28/08 7:00:20 PM com.apple.launchd[1] (org.cups.cupsd) Unknown key: SHAuthorizationRight
6/28/08 7:00:20 PM com.apple.launchd[1] (org.ntp.ntpd) Unknown key: SHAuthorizationRight
6/28/08 7:00:20 PM com.apple.launchd[1] (org.postfix.master) Path monitoring failed on "/var/spool/postfix": No such file or directory
6/28/08 7:00:20 PM kextd[10] 421 cached, 0 uncached personalities to catalog
6/28/08 7:00:21 PM kernel hi mem tramps at 0xffe00000
6/28/08 7:00:21 PM kernel PAE enabled
6/28/08 7:00:21 PM kernel 64 bit mode enabled
6/28/08 7:00:21 PM kernel Darwin Kernel Version 9.3.0: Fri May 23 00:49:16 PDT 2008; root:xnu-1228.5.18~1/RELEASE_I386
6/28/08 7:00:21 PM kernel standard timeslicing quantum is 10000 us
6/28/08 7:00:21 PM kernel vmpagebootstrap: 769776 free pages and 16656 wired pages
6/28/08 7:00:21 PM kernel migtable_maxdispl = 79
6/28/08 7:00:21 PM kernel 109 prelinked modules
6/28/08 7:00:21 PM kernel AppleACPICPU: ProcessorApicId=0 LocalApicId=0 Enabled
6/28/08 7:00:21 PM kernel AppleACPICPU: ProcessorApicId=1 LocalApicId=1 Enabled
6/28/08 7:00:21 PM kernel Loading security extension com.apple.security.TMSafetyNet
6/28/08 7:00:21 PM kernel calling mpopolicyinit for TMSafetyNet
6/28/08 7:00:21 PM kernel Security policy loaded: Safety net for Time Machine (TMSafetyNet)

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Next I took out and put back in the RAM (and it was unplugged). After repeatedly pressing the power button, I got a single beep out of it. I personally don't think it was high enough of a pitch, but I read that it might've been because the computer didn't read any RAM.
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The third time, the fans came on and half of the dong played, but it was cut off.
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