2TB Time Capsule suddenly full after only a few months?

Hello all,
Apologies in advance if this is a question that's already been answered.  I've been searching through threads, but didn't seem to see it.
I have a late 2009 iMac (27 inch, 2.8 GHz i7, 4GB Ram) that had a hard drive affected by the Seagate Recall.  About the same time I was alerted to this, the Firewire drive I'd been using for timemachine backups reached it's capacity.  I figured it was time to get a bigger backup drive and went out and bought a 2TB Time Capsule.  This was on November 5th of 2012.
After making a bootabe clone of hard drive (just as a 2nd backup) I set up my time capsule.  I did the first backup via ethernet, and then, per posts that I found on the forum,( I set it up so that it was connected to my existing wireless router via ethernet, and let my iMac back up to it wirelessly over the home network.  Once or twice, when I've changed large amounts of data, I've reconnected the iMac to the timecapusle via the ethernet cable and let it backup that way.  But overall, the backups have happened over the air.  My home user folder is aprox 632 GBs.
I also had tried to set up my macbook (Intel, late 2006) to back up to the same timecapsule, but was having issues and ended up just turning time machine off since I haven't had time to trouble shoot them.  That macbook (which only has 60 gig harddrive on it) has at least one full backup on it's part of the Time Capsule, but not many more.
So basically my setup looks like this:
Cable Modem connected to Belkin Wireless Router via Ethernet
2TB TC connected to Belkin Router via Ethernet in Bridge mode.
iMac connecting to TC via the wireless network created by router. (with the exception of a few times)
Today, I was surprised that, only a couple months later, that Time Machine told me that the Time Capsule was full, and that it had deleted older backups to make room.  My earliest back up is now Dec 6th 2012.
Previously, my 1 TB firewire drive lasted several years before it started having to delete older backups.
Am I right to think this is out of the ordinary?  And if it isn't, can anyone point me in the right direction to try and figure out why this is ocurring.  I'm not really sure what the first step in trouble shooting the issue would be.
Thanks so much in advance,
avi

Thanks for the quick respons djcastaldo.
I'm not 100% sure what you mean by a "virtual machine"... but I'm guessthing that means I'm not doing it..
I do have about 64 gigs in my dropbox folder... but the day to day changes to the files in there are fairly small (mostly updates to word processing files as I move between computers).  I don't think that would be the issue.
Would the best way to try and find the culrprit file be to just scan through my home folder and look for large files with recent "modified" dates? 
Thanks so much,
avi

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        Any ideas as to why the light on the TC could be solid amber??
    2- What should I do to get the light to be green??
    3- I have no idea of the speed of the back-up, and what it should be.  I have about 190GB of data
    to back up.  I totally understand that it takes many hourse for the first back-up.  It looks like the
    speed I'm seeing is changing frequently, and it's backed up about 3.5GB in about 20 minutes or so.
    Is that a fairly "normal" speed??  I just want to make sure my configuration is good.
    4- I'd like to set up a "guest" wireless network with an easier password...I had done it earlier when
    the connections were not working and perhaps I accidentally removed it when updating to "bridge"
    mode.  To set up a new network, do I just write over the info in the fields when I get to "Wireless"
    tab in the Airport Utility??  The info from my "home" network populates those fields now, and I
    just don't want to risk overwriting the info and losing that network.
         Does the TC "add" a new wireless network when I add new data in those fields...and SAVE the
    original "home" network I created??  Just making sure!
    Thanks to those who reply!
    Chris

    1- The light on the TC is solid AMBER, not green.  When I check the connections in the Airport Utility, all indicator lights on my screen are green, and the "dot" beside the TC icon is green.
    That is weird.. most TC I look at solid AMBER means the hard disk is dead. Not sure but since it is working it is no biggie.. there is some control over how the led functions.. but I doubt you can set the color different.
    In other words.. not a clue.. if the TC is new take it to the genius and show them.. that is not the way it is supposed to work.
    3- I have no idea of the speed of the back-up, and what it should be.  I have about 190GB of data
    to back up.  I totally understand that it takes many hourse for the first back-up.  It looks like the
    speed I'm seeing is changing frequently, and it's backed up about 3.5GB in about 20 minutes or so.
    Is that a fairly "normal" speed??  I just want to make sure my configuration is good.
    Over wireless expect slow.. you did not state wireless or wired.. but those look like reasonable wireless speed. your files will load at different speed.. small files are slow.. larger files much faster.. it takes time to write the tables for many smaller files.
    We always recommend first backup over ethernet.. even if the TC is pulled out of the network.
    4- I'd like to set up a "guest" wireless network with an easier password...I had done it earlier when
    the connections were not working and perhaps I accidentally removed it when updating to "bridge"
    mode.  To set up a new network, do I just write over the info in the fields when I get to "Wireless"
    tab in the Airport Utility??  The info from my "home" network populates those fields now, and I
    just don't want to risk overwriting the info and losing that network.
    Guest network is removed as an option in bridge mode.. just use the uverse modem wireless for guest.

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