Power Management/Sleep Mode

Hi Guys,
I have searched the forum and not come up with what is going on with my new Mac Pro 2.66. When I got it, and set the energy saver to power down the monitor and drives at 15 minutes it worked just fine. Now all of a sudden it will not put the unit to sleep after 15 minutes. It will do what I have scheduled, that is to shut down at 11:00PM each night and start up again at 6:00AM in the morning, but during the day "will Not" sleep after 15 minutes. It will manually sleep if I choose that from the open apple menu.
I went through a series of diagnostics with Apple tech support, including removing all .plist files for energy saver and startup preferences, and also did a complete new install from my system CD's. The apple rep says it seems to be a power supply issue after he also had me reset the power management module by disconnecting all cables from the cpu, powering down and then waiting 2 minutes, restarting and then reconnecting all cables and peripheral devices.
Based on some of your vast experience, do you concur with apple tech support that a new power supply replacement may be in order?
Many thanks for your input...
Jim

Disk Warrior is essential. And no you aren't going to find a disk repair program dealing with corrupt files and directories that is shareware.
Onyx is freeware though.
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/11582/onyx
I have gotten into trouble with TCC though I used it for years, never deep cleaning. For that I preferred Applejack (donation-ware). Onyx seems okay but also scares me with its "improved" and "corrected a bug in..." mentioned in updates. Seems excellent, and maybe it really is complicated.
I backup daily with multiple sets, use SuperDuper and follow up with Disk Warrior afterwards and as preventative maintenance.
MacFixit has some excellent tutorials on best practices for doing system updates and maintenance. I deep clean caches with Applejack.
TCC and Onyx have menu items to kill delete remove Spotlight. Or there is "Spotless" as well.

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