UNABLE TO WAKE A SLEEPING MAC MINI - HELP APPRECIATED

Dear All,
We've just got a new (2010) MacMini which is being used as a central media server, and being administered remotely via ARD 3.3.2.
The only problem we seem to be having is that once the Mac Mini has put itself to sleep we're unable to wake the unit up again vis ARD especially after it's been sleeping for a long while i.e. overnight (we have the put hard disks to sleep option turned 'off' incidentally).
The only way to wake the unit up is to physically go and touch the power button on the rear of the Mac Mini, which is far from ideal... so any help or work-arounds would be greatly received.
Thanks in advance

If the Mini is on the same network as your ARD management console, then choose Wake... from the Manage menu in ARD.
If the Mini is on a remote network, I'm looking for a solution to the same problem!
I have two Minis to manage on two separate remote networks. One is run headless (i.e., no keyboard, monitor, or mouse). With that Mini, it's set to never sleep (anything). Unless it has crashed, I never have a problem accessing it. I always log out of that Mini, which makes the Current Status "Available" and the Current Application "Login Window" in ARD.
For the other Mini, there's a keyboard, monitor,, mouse, and (frequently) a user attached! When nobody's at that Mini, I sometimes get "Unavailable" or "Offline" in Current Status in ARD (doing this for memory). If I have to get into that Mini, I have to have someone manually wake it just like you. I'd like a work-around or a set of settings to make sure that the manual wake is not necessary.

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