Mac Pro: no auto power on after booting Windows

Hi,  I have a Mac Pro (early 2008) dual boot with Lion and Windows 7 on separate HDDs.  I want to have the Mac turn on automatically at a certain time each morning.
If, in Lion, I use the Energy Saver to set up a schedule for automatic turn-on then shut down the Mac, it turns on again at the expected time.  However, if I boot the Mac into Windows and then shut it down, the timed start-up is cancelled.
I assume that Lion sets up something in a hardware timer through the EFI (perhaps just before shutting down) and that Windows 7 disables this in some way.  Does anyone know if there is a means of setting the same start-up action in Windows 7?  I know that I can schedule a Windows start event to wake the computer from standby, but I really want to shut down completely (from Windows) so that a clean boot occurs on the next start.
Many thanks.

It is only out of the box for a few weeks.
Take it back to them.
You also have 90 days phone support, but about all they can do is tell you to bring it in.

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