Cannot backup since updating to Lion: sparsebundle can't be accessed

Since I updated to Lion, I can no longer back up to my TimeCapsule. All I get is this message
"Time Machine could not complete the backup.
The backup disk image “/Volumes/Data/xxxxx’s iMac.sparsebundle” could not be accessed (error -1)."
And the Time Machine indicates latest backup as "Delayed" citing a "Time Machine error", and the same detail as above, "error-1".
I have another Mac that I have NOT upgraded to Lion, and it continues to backup to the same TimeCapsule drive unimpeded. I can't find a solution for this problem in Lion. I hope somone has an answer. I'd really like to re-access my old backups, but I'll be happy enough if I can just make a new backup.
Lion seemed great but this is a pretty serious problem. If my iMac crashes without a working backup - I'm completely hosed.

I found out that this particular error has nothing to do with Lion 10.7.1. My TimeMachine is simply trying to access a backup sparsbundle from a different account on this computer that is no longer used and it can't do it (I suspect because the data and user doesn't match up). I deleted that one. TimeMachine then tried to "inherit" the sparsebundle backup from another computer which I migrated to this computer (its all the same data, just from a different Mac), which also failed. So, I had to try to transfer the sparsebundle to save it, but it's too big to put anywhere (if I had an extra 900 GB drive laying around I could do it...), so I simply deleted it (which took all night to process) and am running a new backup now (which is supposed to take "about 7 hours"! - and by the way, the large sparsebundle is still in the process of deleting after 8 hours, so if you do this too, be very patient). Success!

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