Date & Time Set 2 Months Ahead, TM Backups Have Wrong Date

I've got an iMac here running 10.5.8. The Date & Time accidentally got set to August 11, 2010 a month ago. Backups ran as usual. When the incorrect date was noticed, the user set it back. TM didn't seem to run after that.
I got TM working again, but there are a huge string of backups dated almost 2 months in the future. Does anyone know how to fix something like this?

You have two choices; the easiest is to erase the TM drive, as Kappy says, and let Time Machine start over fresh.
To do that, see #2 in Formatting, Partitioning, Verifying, and Repairing Disks.
The alternative is to delete the future-dated backups, one at a time, via the Time Machine "Star Wars" display. If there really are a lot of them, that will take quit a while. See #12 in Time Machine - Frequently Asked Questions (or use the link in *User Tips* at the top of this forum).

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