Cannot get Time Machine to work

I just installed Leopard on my Power MacG4. I can't get Time Machine to work. I have gone to Utilities and repaired partitions twice. That doesn't seem to be the problem. I have no idea what to do. Any ideas?

Pondini wrote:
Maybe, maybe not. Via Disk Utility, when you click the first line for the drive (Make, Size), does it show the +Apple Partition Map+ down near the bottom, and when you click the second line, show +Mac OS Extended (journaled)?+ If not, that's at least part of the problem.
There should be better messages in your logs. Download the +Time Machine Buddy+ widget. It shows the messages from your logs for one TM backup run at a time, in a small window. Navigate to the failed backup, then copy and post the messages here (be sure to get them all, as sometimes they overflow the small window).
Checked the disk utility and everything shows as you say it should. Here's the log:
Starting standard backup
Backing up to: /Volumes/Time Machine Backups/Backups.backupdb
Event store UUIDs don't match for volume: Macintosh HD
Backup content size: 35.1 GB excluded items size: 144 KB for volume Macintosh HD
No pre-backup thinning needed: 42.14 GB requested (including padding), 931.15 GB available
Error: (-36) SrcErr:NO Copying /Adobe Acrobat 3.0/Acrobat™ Distiller™ 3.01 to /Volumes/Time Machine Backups/Backups.backupdb/Kathy Miller’s Computer/2009-03-08-153448.inProgress/62856C2A-1F0A-438D-925C-B5A18D6E5416/Maci ntosh HD/Adobe Acrobat 3.0
Stopping backup.
Error: (-8062) SrcErr:NO Copying /Adobe Acrobat 3.0/Acrobat™ Distiller™ 3.01 to /Volumes/Time Machine Backups/Backups.backupdb/Kathy Miller’s Computer/2009-03-08-153448.inProgress/62856C2A-1F0A-438D-925C-B5A18D6E5416/Maci ntosh HD/Adobe Acrobat 3.0
Copied 0 files (2.7 MB) from volume Macintosh HD.
Copy stage failed with error:11
Backup failed with error: 11

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