5 days, Time Machine Still not working.

Hi, I've been posting in the following thread:
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=7537422#7537422
But it hasn't gone anywhere. If anyone from Apple could respond to this issue I would really appreciated it.
I have my MBpro17 plugged in to my fw800 time machine drive (LaCie big disk 500 gig) the drive mounted and time machine started to do it's thing, and then after about 2 min I get a message stating time machine backup failed with NO supporting detail about the error message.
I looked in the console log at the time of the error and it shows this (see below). BTW I've also tried deleting the files that it appears to be choking on, and it still doesn't work.
I'm not the only person having this issue. It shows up throughout this forum. but there seems to be NO solution so far, and NO response from any apple employees that I've been able to find.
Hello? Apple support? Help!
7/11/08 9:07:15 AM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[4058] Stopping backup.
7/11/08 9:07:15 AM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[4058] Error: (-36) copying /Users/robgarrott/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music/Podcasts/Warm-Ups/Fingerstyle Warm-Up Part 3.mov to (null)
7/11/08 9:07:16 AM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[4058] Copied 11104 files (3.0 GB) from volume Macintosh HD Laptop.
7/11/08 9:07:16 AM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[4058] Copy stage failed with error:11
7/11/08 9:07:16 AM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[4058] Backup failed with error: 11

this is strictly a user-to-user forum. apple reps never post here.
your posts in the other thread mention that you've tried "back up now" option and it didn't work.
I would try deleting a few most recent backups in the TM and trying again. start TM, scroll to the backup time you want to delete, click on the "gear" action button in finder's toolbar and select 'delete backup". also go to the TM drive in finder and look in backups.backupdb->name-of-your-computer folder. If you see a failed-backup folder, delete it by hand.
If nothing works I would suggest reformatting your TM drive using the partition tab in disk utility. make sure that the partition scheme is set to GUID partition table and the drive format to Mac OS extended journaled. Once the drive is reformatted start TM backups from scratch.

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