Some of you may have read about my sleeping with music thread thread I posted recently, and updates have developed!  My dad (being the more down to Earth of my two parents) has told me unless I find a way to shut down my computer when I sleep, he's gonna get a timer for the plug.  Of course I'm a bit wary of just kicking the plug out without a proper shut down, and now I'm searching for options.  Are there any applications out there that you can download that act like a sleep timer for your stereo?  Small use and minimal system pervasiveness would be ideal.  Also, when I go to bed, I "Lock the Workstation" as Windows puts it.  Basically a log off while keeping all programs running.

Ideas?

It may be worth investigating the Bios of your PC - it may have something along these lines - not sure.

1 thing I found! -
http://www.lullsoft.com/

I am doing the same thing. I have downloaded a shutdown plugin for winamp. When winamp reaches the end of the playlist it just shuts down the computer.  You can find the plugin on the winamp site.