Strange Sleep behaviour on OS X Lion Server

Hi Guys,
I have a Mac Mini Server, For some reason even though i have told my Mini not to sleep under the Energy Saving settings in system preferences it will sleep after 15 mins of inactivity and can only be woken up by pressing the power button.
This is a server so i do not have any input devices installed and it is operated remote using screen sharing. there is however a monitor attached.
I have noticed when it goes into this sleep mode Screen Sharing goes off and just displays "connecting" message and the current image on being output on the monitor will just freeze.
if i hit the power button and then all is ok, the monitor will refresh to display the current image and screen sharing will suddenly connect.
Please can some one help, this is so frustrating.
Thanks

This has happened since the install, I remember installing the OS and it froze well at leat I thought it had, as the progress bar would not progress. However when I moved the mouse it woke up and the screen refreshed.
When I had Snow leopard running I didn't have this issue.
I will try this SMC reset though
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