Schedule shutdown stops working after putting the computer to sleep

I had trouble scheduling the computer to shut down after upgrading from Mac OS 10.3.9 to Mac OS 10.4.6. I accidentally left my screen closed on my PowerBook G4 after scheduling it to startup. It startup with the scceen closed and in sleep mode. After that it wouldn't shutdown after scheduling to shutdown.
So I read a Post to trash Library/preference/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.Autowake.plist. That worked but now it won't shutdown after being put to sleep even when it is woken.

Yes, just put your computer to sleep whenever you judge it right.
The three nightly maintenance tasks are not important enough to change your habits,
they do not affect OS X performance: only disk space.
And yes, since 10.4.2 they are automatically delayed if your computer was sleeping, but you still have to run them manually
— all three together once a month is fine —
if you sometimes shut down or reboot your computer.
Use this Terminal command
sudo periodic daily weekly monthly
or one of the "cache-cleaners" utilities like Cocktail etc.
HTH
Axl

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