USB Hub / Can't Shutdown

I just bought a Swann USB Hub for my printer, scanner, microphone and the lead for my camera and/or iriver. I was at a Apple store and they recommended me to buy the Swann Traveller Slimline Hub as it is the one they use.
They all work fine, but when I shutdown the screen blanks, the light on the mini stays on and the mouse stays lit up.
If I unplug the power to the hub the mini shutdowns ok.
The hub says it is for Mac 10 and up.
I see this problem a lot around the year 2001 in Google, but nothing recently.
All the peripherals work on their own and the mini shutsdown ok with them, it is only when the hub is used there is a problem.
Apple's site suggest you use a hub to make up for the 2 only usb ports on the mini, but I don't want to crawl under the desk to unplug it everytime so you can shutdown.
What can be wrong ?
MacMini 1.25Ghz PPC G4 512MB Mac OS X (10.4.6)

Well I finally solved the problem, very strange though.
I found a tecnical support phone number for Swann.
They told me that Macs and Tiger gets confused with powered hubs and powered peripherals, so to fix this you need to unplug the power to the hub.
The strange thing is I bought the powered Swann hub because I had a un-powered hub before that would not work at all.
Now everything works and shuts down.

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