Cannot see backups with Time Machine and Aiport Extreme

My MacBook Pro is backing up to to an Airport Extreme with a USB drive attached to it. The backing up seems to be working. ie time machine say's it backed up my machine.. eg at 1.57.pm today.
When I enter time machine to try and get a backup, it's not there... it has one finder window for "Now" (1st April) and then the next one in the list is 23rd of March. SO I cannot see any of today, yesterday or another other recent backups.
BTW, I had originally made a backup directly to the USB drive. I am not sure of the date but it could have been 23rd of March.
Any ideas?

Hey
I have the exact same problem. I have just switched from direct firewire-based Time Machine backup to an external drive, to said drive now connected to my Airport Extreme. I knew that it wouldn't accept the old TM backups, so I started up: Started the initial backup wirelessly, the unplugged it, and finished it via firewire. All worked fine, and the sparseimage was recognized and so on. After it was done, I attached the drive to the AE again, and it backup up as it was supposed to 3-4 times a day.
That was 3 days ago. But when I checked my TM yesterday, there was just the "today" window, and I couldn't browse anything. Today it's the same story. What gives?
Now, I opened the sparseimage on the TM drive to see if the incremental backups were there, and they were all there, but somehow TM doesn't read them. Can anybody who has a working TM wireless backup tell me if TM mounts the sparseimage to when launched and unmounts it afterwards?
TM worked great before when connected directly – never had a problem before and something tells me it's a problem with the sparseimage...Nevertheless, if it can't be fixed, I am back to friewire-based TM backup ;-<
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