Scheduled wake doesn't work

When I schedule a wake up at a certain time, it simply does not work. (Wake up is not password-protected.) I ran a test, setting a time for wake up a few minutes later, put my computer to sleep, waited, and nothing happened.

I finally found the solution, after having (needlessly) reinstalled Tiger: it was merely a corrupt preference file (/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.AutoWake.plist).
In case anyone from Apple Computers is listening, may I ask a couple of questions?
1) Why didn't a reinstall correct that? and, more importantly,
2) As there are frequent problems related to corrupt plist files, wouldn't it be a good idea for the Help to mention that possiblity, along with the location of the plist file in question?

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