Can I get Apple's Backup to work without MobileMe?

I've moved to a "new" (well, to me) Early 2008 MacBook Pro with 10.6.8. With my old iMac G4, I used Apple's Backup program. I have their version for Leopard and installed it. It won't work, though. It gives an "exceeds trial limit" warning because it can't confirm that I have a valid MobileMe subscription. I'm NOT using the backup to iDisk, just to an external HD. I paid for MobileMe (well, .Mac) for years and had no problem with backing up with the iMac on 10.3.9. Does anyone know of a way around this?

Here's are some additional thoughts on the subject.
Would you need to get yet another external hard drive? Maybe. Lets examine what you do have.
Your "working drive" is the OWC... okay. I assume you use this for your every day photo work, editing, printing, etc. You have copies of all your photos on the LaCie drive, and backup this OWC drive to where?
Your "pristine drive" is the LaCie... I think this is a key drive for you. You definitely want to backup the LaCie... eventually it WILL fail (they all do) and you don't want to be in that situation without a backup. I would consider buying "yet another" hard drive for this drive alone, and keeping it tucked away somewhere safe, off site. That will mean that once a week or so you bring it home and update the backup, but your data won't be lost should some unspeakable catastrophe strike your workspace.
2TB USB "spare drive"... used for what? If you use this as backup for the OWC or for your daily User folder, or both, that's fine. I'd stick with that. To play it safe if you decide to use Time Machine, I would not recommend partitioning this drive and using any part of it to backup the LaCie. Mostly because it doesn't have the capacity. The rule of thumb for that being, as I understand it, 2x to 2.5x the capacity of the drive to be backed up. It should be fine the way you use it now, though.
So, would I recommend buying yet another hard drive for your situation? The answer is Yes. If for no other reason than to ensure you have a safe copy of the data on your pristine drive... the one you REALLY do not wish to lose to failure.
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