Mac Pro 2008 does not go to sleep

For some time now, I have been experiencing sleep issues with my Mac Pro (late 2008). I’ve searched the web extensively and tried a couple of things, including disconnecting external drives/ hubs, closing all apps and creating a new user account, but nothing has worked.
Could it be that software the installation of software such as the new Adobe CS5 can cause sleep issues? i started experiencing sleep problems around the time of the installation.
My Screen saver is set to turn on after 5 minutes of inactivity and both sliders in "Energy Saver" are set to 10 minutes. The only box i have ticked is “Put Hard Disks to Sleep when possible”.
If there’s no solution, I will need to do an Erase and Install, I heard it’s good to do once in a while.

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For some time now, I have been experiencing sleep issues with my Mac Pro (late 2008). I’ve searched the web extensively and tried a couple of things, including disconnecting external drives/ hubs, closing all apps and creating a new user account, but nothing has worked.
Could it be that software the installation of software such as the new Adobe CS5 can cause sleep issues? i started experiencing sleep problems around the time of the installation.
My Screen saver is set to turn on after 5 minutes of inactivity and both sliders in "Energy Saver" are set to 10 minutes. The only box i have ticked is “Put Hard Disks to Sleep when possible”.
If there’s no solution, I will need to do an Erase and Install, I heard it’s good to do once in a while.
Look at this :
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1776?viewlocale=en_US
Can not see what is so good about doing an erase and install if your Mac is working fine, my MacBook Pro is going for 6 months now and I have not done a erase and install once and it is still performing as good as the day I got it accept for auto sleep which I do not care about.

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