Cannot get Time Machine to "see" my AEBS USB disk?

I am trying to set up a Time Machine backup through my AEBS USB Disk.
The USB disk is formatted GUID with a single partition (1TB Fantom) and appears in the shared menu and mounts in the finder on all three of my computers on the AEBS.
I just cannot get it to show up in Time Machine as an available drive to back up to.
I partitioned using GUID as many posts suggest.
Drive appears in shared menu and mounts in finder
In Time Machine drive does not appear as a destination from all three of my computers on my network
In Airport Utility
Firmware version 7.4.1
File Sharing Tab: Enable File Sharing is checked
I have tried "with accounts", "with a disk password" and "with airport extreme password".
Remember this password in my keychain is checked
Airport Disks Guest Access: Read and Write
Share Disks over WAN (I tried checked and unchecked)
I am running 10.5.6 on all three Macs. A G5 tower and two MacBooks.
I have read a lot of troubleshooting posts on this issue, but I believe I have tried everything I should. I imagine it is something simple at this point.
Any thoughts and guidance greatly appreciated.
Henry

Same problem here, but I have a work around, I'm not sure what is really required here and what is fluff, but this is how I got to it.
Directly connect the drive to your computer, and do your first Time Machine backup.
Disconnect from the computer and connect to the AEBS. I have mine shared as With Airport Extreme password and guest read/write enabled
Go to Finder.
There you will see
your network name icon
and an icon called All...
For me the network Icon will not connect to the drive, but... the All... icon will show the drive just fine. Navigate to the drive in Finder through the All... path.
Now start up Time Machine preferences, and you can select the AEBS drive. Note Without navigating to the drive through the finder the drive does not seem to mount to the system.
You should be working now.
As a side note, I have a Lacie drive that when plugged in works fine. The network named Icon will show the drive just fine. The other drive (A Seagate) is in an Ultra box and will not mount through the network icon. This is just plain weird.
Now all I need is to find a way to auto mount the drive 8), and fix the can't login to the network icon... Challenges make the world go 'round.

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