After 10.5.6, Time Machine tries to back up away from home

i have a macbook pro. before i upgraded to 10.5.6, it only tried to back up when i was on my home network. now it's trying to back up here at work (and failing, as the backup drive is at home) - something it's never done before.
is there any way to ensure that it only attempts a backup when on a particular network?

Tim Erickson wrote:
A blogger named James has a well-written solution to at least a similar problem:
http://programminggems.wordpress.com/2008/12/16/mac-10-5-6/
Actually removing the file is not the proper solution.
The file on my machine reads
-r-------- 1 root wheel 16 Nov 22 2007 .001b63933178
and the backups work properly.
The blogger's file had "staff" instead of "wheel" and that might be the problem.
The important file is the main directory which should read
drwxr-xr-x+ 4 root nero 136 Nov 22 15:52 Backups.backupdb
where "nero" is the user of the computer.

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