Power Managment in PPC vs. Intel Mac

I had a question about power management. Previously I have used a Mac Mini PPC for a home server. Everytime my power would flicker, the Mac Mini would bring itself back up.. (I had marked Power up after power failure in System Prefs). But now, since I have had the new Intel mini.. if the power flickers, it may, or may not come back up.. depending if the power flickers quickly. I am guessing this is b/c the BIOS is different in the new Intel Minis... but I would figure Apple would have it behave the same... but it flat out doesn't.
Any suggestions?

Well, I was just presenting a single case. We actually have 100s of these mac minis in the field that we do not have physical access to. A UPS would solve one of the problems, but not all. The solution that Apple previously had in place where the Mini would start up whenever power was applied worked great for us. But in this case we need to get something that would either do that, or allow us/user to turn on the mini without physical access to it (its locked up). Any other suggestions?
Mac Mini Core Duo Mac OS X (10.4.7)

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