Mini (Late 2009 - server) won't sleep!

All -
I have recently set up a Mini (Late 2009 - server version) as a small home server. Much of the time I'd like it to be asleep (in the middle of the night, during the day when no-one's at home). The problem is, it won't sleep. It doesn't seem to detect when it's idle and once it's awake - it stays that way. I can make it sleep via the Apple menu - but that's the only way.
My setup:
1 x Mac Mini SL Server (2 x 500GB Drives) connected via Ethernet cable (Airport and Bluetooth switched off) with 10.6.2; no mouse, no keyboard, no display
1 x Drobo connected to Mini via FW800
1 x Airport Extreme 802.11n (but only in bridge mode)
1 x broadband router providing DNS, DHCP etc.
Settings:
- Wake for Network Access set to On
My troubleshooting so far:
1. I've changed the default settings of "Computer Sleep" in the Energy Savings preference pane to 30 minutes rather than the default "Never"
2. I've tried resetting the SMC as detailed in http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1543 but it still behaves in the same way
3. When I manually sleep the Mini using the Sleep menu option in the Apple menu, the Mini sleeps and the wakes after about two hours with the following entries in /var/log/kernel.log:
Nov 13 12:12:51 server kernel[0]: System Sleep
Nov 13 14:00:51 server kernel[0]: Wake reason = RTC
Nov 13 14:00:51 server kernel[0]: RTC: maintenance alarm 2009/11/13 14:00:48, sleep 2009/11/13 12:12:52
Nov 13 14:00:51 server kernel[0]: System Wake
Nov 13 14:00:51 server kernel[0]: Previous Sleep Cause: 5
Nov 13 14:00:51 server kernel[0]: NVEthernet::setLinkStatus - Valid but not Active
Nov 13 14:00:51 server kernel[0]: Ethernet [nvenet]: Link up on en0, 1-Gigabit, Full-duplex, Symmetric flow-control, Debug [796d,0000,0de1,000d,cde1,3c00]
Nov 13 14:00:51 server kernel[0]: NVEthernet::setLinkStatus - link Valid and Active
Nov 13 14:00:51 server kernel[0]: R-state changed 2->0
My guess (and having surfed for answers) is that every two hours or so, the Mini wakes up and reminds everything on the LAN of the services that it's providing and then should go back to sleep. This would be fine if it did actually go to sleep ...
4. I've disconnected the Drobo so all that's plugged into the Mini is the power and Ethernet cable and it still shows the same problem ...
Anyone with any ideas or next steps?
Thanks, everyone - J.

Sleep has always been a problem. The current posts show this fact, this one “won’t sleep” and just above “won’t awake”
My energy setup for any systems or OS versions is always
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√ Put HD to sleep when possible
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