After System Restore Time Machine does too much!

I had some issues with boot camp that I will not go into now. Haha. After reinstalling Leopard and using my previous time machine backup stuff to resort to, my computer is fine. It's just like the way I left it the last time i did a backup. However, when I went to do a current back up, it has to back up like 100 GB of stuff which makes no sense, I have done nothing new. I think it's backing up the same stuff that it already has. Somehow after the system restore it can't tell that it already backed up everything that's on my computer. Any suggestions!? Thanks.

Is there anything I can do so that I don't have to waste so much space with the same stuff?

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  • Kernel Panic, Restored System Using Time Machine but Problems Still  Persis

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    8 ReportCrash 0x00002eef 0x1000 + 7919
    9 ReportCrash 0x000094a2 0x1000 + 33954
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    11 ReportCrash 0x0000b121 0x1000 + 41249
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    1 libSystem.B.dylib 0x946f29bc mach_msg + 72
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    4 libSystem.B.dylib 0x9471c095 pthreadstart + 321
    5 libSystem.B.dylib 0x9471bf52 thread_start + 34
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    edi: 0x00000000 esi: 0x001b28d0 ebp: 0xb00807d8 esp: 0xb0080780
    ss: 0x0000001f efl: 0x00010297 eip: 0x0007d903 cs: 0x00000017
    ds: 0x0000001f es: 0x0000001f fs: 0x0000001f gs: 0x00000037
    cr2: 0x00366000
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