Sound Bridge 1000 -- Alarm clock

I've gotten a little help from the support email on this issue so far -- but
would probably be good to open it up to the community.

Using an iTunes server, the alarm clock feature is unsupported. Since I bought
the sound bridge primarily for its alarm clock feature, I was a little
disappointed. 

With the assistance of roku support, they steered me to SlimServer. I run both
servers on my PC -- and connect without issue wirelessly to either one
(sidenote, I like the iTunes UI better).

I was able to set up the alarm clock on slim server: play list, set time (and
arm it to 'on'). Pressing the power, the roku goes into standby mode with the
date and time (time is, of course changing every second). 

However, the unit never came on at the prescribed time. I have double checked
the time, play list, etc. And all seems right.

Can anyone help me successfuly wake up on time? 

Thanks,

Wim