Backup Extremely Slow. Tried Everything. Please Help.

I am doing my first backup with an external HD (160GB, USB 2.0) and Time Machine. It has been an hour and only a little bit more than 1GB out of 90GB have been backed up. I googled around and tried everything including reformatting the HD to Mac OS Expanded (Journal), turning off spotlight, unmounting and remounting the HD, removing "inprogress" file... None of them work for me. I don't have anti-virus software installed, either.
That the backup will take 4 days is unthinkable. Could anyone help?

bly2425 wrote:
I am doing my first backup with an external HD (160GB, USB 2.0) and Time Machine. It has been an hour and only a little bit more than 1GB out of 90GB have been backed up.
Does that hour include the "preparing" time? If so, that's not a good measure. On your initial backup, TM does a "deep traversal," examining every folder on your system, before it starts copying data. With 90 gb to back up, that might take half an hour or more.
Also, your TM disk may not be large enough to keep backups for long. The rule of thumb is, TM needs 2 - 3 times the space of what it's backing-up. This varies greatly, of course, depending on how you use your Mac, but TM may not be able to keep your backups for very long.
I googled around and tried everything including reformatting the HD to Mac OS Expanded (Journal),
Did you set the right *Partition Map Scheme?* It must be GUID for an Intel Mac, +Apple Partition Map+ for a PPC Mac. Check the first line of the drive via Disk Utility. If that's not right, you must stop TM and reformat it properly. See item 5 of the +Frequently Asked Questions+ post at the top of this forum.
removing "inprogress" file...
That is dangerous and usually unnecessary and just makes the next backup run longer. Do it only as a last resort.
Download the +Time Machine Buddy+ widget from: http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/status/timemachinebuddy.html. It shows the messages from your logs for one TM backup run at a time, in a small window. Copy and post the messages here (be sure to get them all, as sometimes they overflow the small window).
An explanation of some of the common messages are in item 7 of the post referenced above.

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