Keeping your mini asleep

I have had trouble keeping my mini asleep. It would constantly wake itself up. My concern is having the monitor on when not in use, eventually burning it out. The easy solution of shutting the monitor off does not apply when you have an 8 year old, a 6 year old and a wife who leaves every light in the house on.
I have read dozens of posts here and found my solution. I thought I would share it for those in the same boat.
I have a USB printer attached to the mini, an Apple keyboard attached to the mini (USB) and a Kensington wireless mouse -- the receiver (USB) is attached to the keyboard. Because the keyboard is a USB hub, I thought I that the mouse may be waking the mini. I disconnected it and attached the Apple one-button mouse. The mini went into a deep sleep and did not wake on its own!
Wanting to use my Kensington 3-button mouse, I decided to attach the receiver directly to the mini (not through the keyboard hub) and attached the printer to the keyboard. Guess what? The mini now goes to sleep and doesn't wake until I wake it! That was it -- the wireless mouse in the hub kept waking the mini, while the printer does not.
To some, this is not news, but for those searching for a solution, this may help.
Good luck.

Dear Only,
Thanks for this post. I have the exact same problem with the exact same setup so I'll move the USB receiver from the keyboard to the Mini and hope the two of us can sleep through the night.
I do, however, wish we could resolve the issue as to why we can not put that receiver in the keyboard hub. I'm now taking the last USB port on the mini and that port was reserved for charging my ipod shuffle. I guess I can charge it on the back of my cinema display. Anyway, thanks for taking the time to document your issue and resolution.
iTim

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