Mac Pro wakes in the night after 10.5.7 update

Mac Pro has taken to waking from sleep spontaneously, and staying awake. This is generally some time after sleeping - an hour perhaps. 99% sure this started after the 10.5.7 update. I think (but I'm not yet sure) that if I put it to sleep a second time without doing anything it will then stay asleep.
"Wake for Ethernet administrator access" and "Restart automatically after power failure" are both unchecked. Nothing else on the network at this time except the ADSL router. Computer should sleep after 20 minutes, but it doesn't. Eveything else seems fine after the update.
Thoughts anyone?

Thanks both. I do have wireless KB and mouse, and I've wondered if Bluetooth might be causing the problem. Normally I use the space bar to wake it up. Everything has been fine for 6 weeks from new, until the 10.5.7 update.
After posting the above message at 10:15 I put the Mac to sleep, but found it awake a few minutes later. I've found this in the System log:
Jun 21 10:17:52 ... kernel[0]: System Sleep
Jun 21 10:26:03 ... kernel[0]: Wake reason = UHC6
Jun 21 10:26:03 ... kernel[0]: System Wake
Jun 21 10:26:03 ... kernel[0]: Previous Sleep Cause: 5
Jun 21 10:26:03 ... kernel[0]: USB (UHCI):Port 1 on bus 0x5a has remote wakeup from some device
I then put it to sleep again at 10:34 and it stayed asleep until I woke it with the keyboard:
Jun 21 10:34:59 ... kernel[0]: System Sleep
Jun 21 15:51:49 ... kernel[0]: Wake reason = UHC6
Jun 21 15:51:49 ... kernel[0]: System Wake
Jun 21 15:51:40 ... /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[22160]: Starting standard backup
I don't know what UHC6 is, but it's the wake reason both times, so maybe this is keyboard related. It would be a pain to have to turn the KB off every time though.
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