Retrospect automated jobs dont run

I have recently noticed that on one of my xserve (10.3.9 server) the automated Retrospect (6.0.204) jobs fail to automatically start at the scheduled time. I have a backup job to external FW 800 running at 12.01am and a backup job to tape at 04:00am. If I login to the server in the morning and run Retrospect application the "queued" jobs immediately start to kick in. Any ideas why this would happen?

Try to leave the machine logged in when Retrospect is supposed to run. Since it is an application it should require the user be logged in.

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