Time Machine starts backup then fails

I'm trying to use Time Machine to backup wirelessly to Time Capsule. It starts but then fails after about 40 Mb, telling me an error occurred.
I've browsed these forums and tried reading Console Messages, but they don't mean much to me.
This is the first of 6 similar messages.
07/03/08 7:11:02 com.apple.backupd[49744] 2008-03-07 07:11:02.298 diskimages-helper[49755:1603] Error loading /Library/Plug-ins/DiskImages/VirtualPCDiskImagePlugin.bundle/Contents/MacOS/Vir tualPCDiskImagePlugin: dlopen(/Library/Plug-ins/DiskImages/VirtualPCDiskImagePlugin.bundle/Contents/Ma cOS/VirtualPCDiskImagePlugin, 262): no suitable image found. Did find:
Does anyone have any suggestions ? Am I on the right track ?

I'm trying to use Time Machine to backup wirelessly to Time Capsule. It starts but then fails after about 40 Mb, telling me an error occurred.
I've browsed these forums and tried reading Console Messages, but they don't mean much to me.
This is the first of 6 similar messages.
07/03/08 7:11:02 com.apple.backupd[49744] 2008-03-07 07:11:02.298 diskimages-helper[49755:1603] Error loading /Library/Plug-ins/DiskImages/VirtualPCDiskImagePlugin.bundle/Contents/MacOS/Vir tualPCDiskImagePlugin: dlopen(/Library/Plug-ins/DiskImages/VirtualPCDiskImagePlugin.bundle/Contents/Ma cOS/VirtualPCDiskImagePlugin, 262): no suitable image found. Did find:
Does anyone have any suggestions ? Am I on the right track ?

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