System No Longer Requires Password to Wake from Sleep

Greetings all! My Mini has recently stopped asking me to supply a password when waking it from sleep. It goes into sleep with no problem, complete with the pulsing white LED. But when I wake the system (using either the keyboard or the power button), the system just wakes up without requesting authentication. In addition, if I leave the system idle for 15 or 20 minutes, the screen saver kicks in. Trouble is, settings in both "Energy Saver" and "Desktop & Screen Saver" are set to never sleep the display. (And it doesn't require a password to wake the display there either.)
I've tried unchecking and rechecking the "Require password..." option in "Security", I've tried rebooting, I've tried repairing priveleges. Nothing works. I do have a KVM switch hooked up to the system, but I don't think that's the culprit, as the system has required a password in the past with the KVM switch connected. In addition, I've had this problem occasionally in the past, and it usually comes up after I've installed a system update from Apple. In the past, it's just seemed to go away on its own, but I'd obviously like to fix it myself instead of letting it work itself out.
Anyone have any suggestions on perhaps trashing certain prefs files or anything else? Thanks!
Mac Mini 1.42GHz PPC Mac OS X (10.4.7)
Mac Mini 1.42GHz Mac OS X (10.4.7)

It's the same here on a recently bought MacBook Pro. Searching this forum produced quite a lot threads about this topic. But none of the solutions posted did work on my machine.
I'd like to file a formal bug report with Apple, but I did not find any bug tracking system. Is the feedback program the only way to let Apple know there is a problem?? I'd prefer if I got some feedback on my problem report...
Christoph
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