Keeps Logging Me Out After Going to Sleep

For some reason, my iMac logs me out a few hours after the machine's monitor turns off. This has happened, I think, almost as long as I've owned this computer, which is about 2 years now. It's the only one of my Macs that does this to me.
I'm running OS X 10.9.3
Computer Sleep is set to never
Display Sleep is set to 1 hour
It's quite annoying since this means that my Dropbox and other TSR's have to load. Additioanlly, if I leave it to run a project for a few hours, I'll come back and discover a note telling me that I couldn't log out because X process was running.
Any thoughts on what might be triggering this behavior?

From the menu bar, select
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