Turning on monitor wakes mac from sleep

I've hooked up my G4 Gigabit Ethernet to my HDTV, and I'm happily using it to play music and watch slideshows. Very happy to breath some life back in the girl.
One issue though: If I turn on my monitor to watch TV it wakes the G4 from sleep (the state I keep it in most of the time). Most of the Shareware or Scripts I've seen are for the exact opposite issue -- trying to keep the computer from going to sleep -- I want to keep the computer asleep!

Options is there in Tiger. This is a screenshot of the Display Preferences from a Tiger volume.

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