Can TM use a drive smaller than iMac HD?

I have a G5 iMac with a 160GB internal HD. About half of the internal HD is used.
I have a WD MyBook 250GB external drive connected via Firewire. The MyBook is formated with two partitions. One is a 160GB partition that a use to clone my internal HD using CCC. The other is a 90GB partition that I want to use for Time Machine. I intend to continue to use CCC and clone my internal HD going forward so I always have a bootable drive.
I haven't gotten my Leopard upgrade yet so this my be an obvious answer but can I exclude the system files, etc. from the TM back-up since I will continue to have the clone and just back up my data (documents, photios, music, etc.) so I can use TM with the remaining smaller partiton on the MyBook?
I also note in another post that the Entourage DB file is always backed-up in full each hour so that will use a lot of the MyBook space. Can TM be set up to back up that file only one per day?
Thanks,
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can I exclude the system files, etc. from the TM back-up since I will continue to have the clone and just back up my data (documents, photios, music, etc.) so I can use TM with the remaining smaller partiton on the MyBook?
Yes, you can.
I also note in another post that the Entourage DB file is always backed-up in full each hour so that will use a lot of the MyBook space. Can TM be set up to back up that file only one per day?
Not that I can see. There doesn't appear to be that level of granularity in TM; it's include/exclude only and the scheduling of the backups is all built in.

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