Can no longer configure Time Machine

I upgraded to OS 10.5 from 10.3 a few weeks ago, Time Machine was working fine till today, when menu bar says Time Machine not configured, the Lacie disk I back up onto (which shows on desktop) now says Lacie and no longer shows the greenish TM logo (my HD on desktop still shows it okay) and when I turn TM on in prefs, it shows nothing to choose as my backup disk. I'm very confused...
Thanks in advance.
Michael, London

The preferences file may be corrupted.
Do a "full reset," per #A4 in Time Machine - Troubleshooting (or the link in *User Tips* at the top of this forum).
If that doesn't help, your backups may be corrupted.
Repair them, per #A5 in Troubleshooting.

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