Keynote preventing logout/restart

I'm running Keynote (5.2) as a display kiosk on a MacMini running 10.7.4. I have the mini set to start up every day at 8:15 AM and shut down at 5:15 PM. The Mini isn't shutting down at the desired time beacause Keynote is preventing the logout (gives a message saying as much and suggests to force quit, which isn't necessary). So, every morning, I need to manually restart the Mini, rendering this exercise in automation moot. Any suggestions as to how to get this to work? It worked fine in 10.6.8 and this problem only started after upgrading to 10.7.4.

BTW: 10.6.2 update should address this problem....
I've installed it - now i'll wait and see...
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