Time Machine: Why Does It Disable Finder?

I am using Time Machine with a third party external drive. I find I am having to do a hard shut down every few days because I will find the indicator on the menu bar just spinning away, my dock will lock up, and when I restart and look at the Time Machine preferences, I will find that the last backup was a day or two ago. Every once in a while, a restart will trigger a backup failed warning. Yet sometimes it will do what it's supposed to for a while. Is anyone else having similar issues? Any ideas what the problem might be? Thanks!

My suggestions:
Do one backup manually with a Ethernet cable. This is much faster than wireless, and if there is any corruption on the backups, it will be able to fix it in much shorter time. Once this is done, increase the backup interval. This should help the time machine to run more smoothly.
Here is the unofficial way (sorry - there isn't an official way)
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=200710291721156
If you will have one big monolithic file that keep updated by the application very frequently, then you should exclude the file and do the backup manually.

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