IMac will not stay asleep! Widgets are to blame!!

Thought I'd share this piece of information, it might be in here somewhere but I could not find the resolution. Here goes:
Recently, my iMac would not stay asleep, my screensaver would not even start. If I forced my screensaver with expose, it would not fall asleep after the specified time in system preferences>energy saver. If i selected "sleep" from the apple menu, it would wake back up after 2-10 seconds. I just recently set up my airport network and thought about that, nothing. I thought it might be a program, so I shut down all my programs, and still nothing. I was so frustrated so I decided to search the forums. I found a post that suggested to look at the Activity Monitor (apps>utilities>activity monitor). So I did that and guess what: the activity keeping my imac from sleeping was DASHBOARD. I had a great widget that had swimming fish, only the fish swam all the time, and prevent my computer from sleeping. Keep that in mind when you are adding widgets.
Problem solved, and now my iMac sleeps at night, and so do I! (come on, it was too easy to pass :D)

Good to hear.
Enjoy your Mac
-mj

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