I use a power conditioner to switch all three of my amps on and off (a 7500 and two 200's), so I'm not a good reference for power consumption in standby mode. According to the
M2200 specs , standby power consumption is on the order of 3 watts. I'm not sure what the standby consumption are for the 990 and 7500, but there could be a few more watts there as well - and that heat would rise through knownalien's rack to heat the air entering the 2200 stack. As I type this, I'm trying to figure out how much energy it would take to warm the top amp to 20F or 25F higher than ambient (and I may take a stab at it later if I can come up with some approximations for the other variables), but it's dependent on a lot of factors.
Knownalien, if we assume that each component in the rack is burning 3W in standby (990, 7500, both 2200's, and the megachanger), that's a total consumption of 15W when everything's off. Assuming you never turn the system on in a month, that's 720 hours at 15W, or 10.8kWh. Since energy costs have gone up lately, we'll say that your rate might be $0.12/kWh - that's $1.30 a month in electricity ($0.52 of which is from the 2200's).
Benson, what speakers are you driving? It sounds like you're giving the 2200's quite a workout - enough so that it would probably be good to give them a bit more breathing room if possible. That should be enough to keep them out of protected mode.