Shutdown on it's own...

I've been having a problem with my MacPro. On occasion, I leave the machine to render overnight, but when I come back the next morning it is off. It is not scheduled to shutdown by itself. This morning when I came in, I looked at the log and found the following:
8/25/09 6:43:22 PM com.apple.loginwindow[36] Shutdown NOW!
8/25/09 6:43:22 PM com.apple.loginwindow[36] System shutdown time has arrived
8/25/09 6:43:22 PM com.apple.SystemStarter[29] Stopping HighPoint In-Band Management Server
8/25/09 6:43:22 PM com.apple.SystemStarter[29] Shutting down Qmaster processes
8/25/09 6:43:28 PM com.apple.SystemStarter[29] Stopping HighPoint RAID Management Server
8/25/09 6:44:11 PM com.apple.launchctl.System[2] launchctl: Please convert the following to launchd: /etc/mach_init.d/dashboardadvisoryd.plist
8/25/09 6:44:11 PM com.apple.launchd[1] (com.apple.ODSAgent) Unknown key: SHAuthorizationRight
8/25/09 6:44:11 PM com.apple.launchd[1] (org.apache.httpd) Unknown key: SHAuthorizationRight
8/25/09 6:44:11 PM com.apple.launchd[1] (org.cups.cups-lpd) Unknown key: SHAuthorizationRight
8/25/09 6:44:11 PM com.apple.launchd[1] (org.cups.cupsd) Unknown key: SHAuthorizationRight
8/25/09 6:44:11 PM com.apple.launchd[1] (org.ntp.ntpd) Unknown key: SHAuthorizationRight
8/25/09 6:44:11 PM com.apple.launchd[1] (org.x.privileged_startx) Unknown key for boolean: EnableTransactions
8/25/09 6:44:11 PM com.apple.launchd[1] (com.apple.AEServer) Unknown key: SHAuthorizationRight
8/25/09 6:44:11 PM com.apple.launchd[1] (com.openssh.sshd) Unknown key: SHAuthorizationRight
8/25/09 6:44:17 PM org.apache.httpd[27] httpd: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using ::1 for ServerName
It seems the machine thinks it is scheduled to shutdown, even though it's not.

As a first step, try a SMC reset.
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