Can't Backup

I used to have a 20" ALS G5 iMac. It gave me all kinds of trouble and I had to take it in for repair several times. In the last instance, my USB and Firewire ports kept disappearing, so that I couldn't keep any devices recognized or any drives mounted. Because I couldn't keep any drives mounted, I couldn't do any backups.
So I took it in to the Apple Store to get fixed again. They replaced it with a brand new 20" Intel iMac, and they used the Migration Assistant to transfer all my data over to the new computer.
The new computer is working great, but I'm still unable to make a backup. Everytime I attempt to make a backup with either Carbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper, the programs will stall everytime. They don't freeze up. They continue to respond, but they don't progress, even after leaving them running for nearly 24 hours each.
On the SuperDuper discussions, they tell you to run:
sudo lsof | grep SDCopy
in the Terminal to see which file it's stalled on. However, when I run that command, I get no output, even after letting it sit and chew on the command for over an hour.
I can copy files via drag and drop through the Finder to my external drive just fine, so for the time being I'm just dragging my home directories, Shared directories and Applications directory to my external drive. However, I would like to get back to using a nice, incremental backup method.
I've been thinking about either getting the .Mac Family Pack (I have a single user .Mac account now), or else getting Retrospect. I'm kind of wary of Retrospect though, since they don't have a Universal version yet, and their FAQ lists a number of features that don't work on Intel Macs.
Does anybody have anybody have any advice on getting SuperDuper or CCC working, or whether Retrospect or something else could work?

Hi, Wade.
None of the issues discussed in the EMC Support document "Retrospect 6.1 for Macintosh supports Apple's new Intel-based computers running Mac OS X" should prevent you from creating either of the following types of backups saved to your external FireWire drive:
• Bootable Duplicates of your startup disk
• Backup Sets.
The only potential caveat is that it may run a tad slower under Rosetta.
As we discussed offline, a free, 30-day trial version of Retrospect is available, so you can test it without risk of anything but the time to perform the test.
If there is a corrupted file on your Mac that is prohibiting the backups you've tried from completing, my "Finding corrupted files" FAQ may help.
If Retrospect finds a corrupted file that it cannot back up, it logs this and moves on.
Good luck!
Dr. Smoke
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