Disable time machine star animation in Mountain Lion

From time to time I inadvertently delete a file and so I go into time machine to recover it. Which is super useful. What's driving me insane, though, is the animated background animation of expanding stars. Trying to scan my folders while the background keeps moving forward is making me seriously nauseous. I get a headache after only a few minutes...
It seems like there used to be a way to turn this frankly superfluous animation off (e.g. http://hintsforums.macworld.com/showthread.php?t=102266, or http://hints.macworld.com/comment.php?mode=view&cid=117454). But starting in Lion this seems not to work any longer (see https://discussions.apple.com/message/18330846#18330846).
Any ideas how I can get a steady background image in the time machine interface?

vance.corkery wrote:
Hi,
Operating 10.7.4, I make use of 'time machine' encrypted backups to an external HD. If I wipe the HD and do a fresh install of 10.8, will I lose the encrypted backup?
No. It's password only. You can even access it on a different Mac (Lion or ML) with the password.

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when screen sharing to a Mac in Time Machine, the animated background grinds the screen to a halt.
I have tried this tip:
http://hints.macworld.com/comment.php?mode=view&cid=117454
but my Lion's time machine background still animates. Is there a different solution for Lion?

I just posted a similar question in the OS 10.8 section: https://discussions.apple.com/message/20848493#20848493
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Dear Pondini,
I am grateful for your advice and encouraging words, but I am (and remain) at my wit's ends as far as Time Machine is concerned. While I'm sure 99.99% of Mac users have no problem, there must be SOMETHING idiosyncratic about my own setup that has consistently crashed TM in the past, and now (after upgrading to Mountain Lion), it simply refuses to work EVER. Mind you, I'm NOT a "hacker" who installs non-standard software or likes to poke around in the Kernel.
Below is a shortened version of the Console output during my latest attempt - after 3 tries (after running disk utility to repair my permissions and check the hard drive), it never makes it beyond about 4 Gb before crashing. (And, what's worse, if I don't immediately react, TM very often crashes the whole computer to the point where NOTHING works anymore - requiring a restart. Even with Mountain Lion).
Thanks for any offer of help from anyone... SK
THIS WAS RIGHT BEFORE I TRIED TO START THE BACKUP
7/30/12 12:42:46.697 PM WindowServer[73]: [cps/setfront] Failed setting the front application to Finder, psn 0x0-0xc00c, securitySessionID=0x186a4, err=-13066 _
7/30/12 12:46:53.815 PM UserEventAgent[180]: com.apple.TMLaunchAgent disabled
NONE OF THE ABOVE WAS IN RESPONSE TO ANYTHING I DID! BUT MAYBE A CLUE?
ANYWAY, HERE GOES (with many repetitive lines removed - indicated by gaps):
7/30/12 12:48:52.885 PM com.apple.backupd[320]: Starting manual backup
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7/30/12 12:49:20.607 PM com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[156]: (com.apple.KerberosHelper.LKDCHelper[212]) Exited with code: 1
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7/30/12 1:05:28.000 PM kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
7/30/12 1:05:28.000 PM kernel[0]: jnl: disk1s2: do_jnl_io: strategy err 0x5
7/30/12 1:05:28.000 PM kernel[0]: jnl: disk1s2: write_journal_header: error writing the journal header!
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7/30/12 1:05:28.000 PM kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
7/30/12 1:05:30.000 PM kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
7/30/12 1:05:30.341 PM com.apple.backupd[320]: Error writing to backup log. NSFileHandleOperationException:*** -[NSConcreteFileHandle writeData:]: Invalid argument
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7/30/12 1:05:30.341 PM com.apple.backupd[320]: Error writing to backup log. NSFileHandleOperationException:*** -[NSConcreteFileHandle writeData:]: Invalid argument
7/30/12 1:05:30.341 PM com.apple.backupd[320]: Error: (-50) SrcErr:NO Copying /Applications/Preview.app/Contents/XPCServices to /Volumes/TimeShare/Backups.backupdb/kuhn’s MacBook Pro/2012-07-30-124855.inProgress/A9556B25-47FE-4D1F-A2C9-BF18EEF78898/Macintosh HD/Applications/Preview.app/Contents
7/30/12 1:05:30.381 PM com.apple.backupd[320]: Stopping backup.
7/30/12 1:05:30.381 PM com.apple.backupd[320]: Error writing to backup log. NSFileHandleOperationException:*** -[NSConcreteFileHandle writeData:]: Invalid argument
7/30/12 1:05:30.381 PM com.apple.backupd[320]: Error: (-8062) SrcErr:NO Copying /Applications/Preview.app/Contents/XPCServices/com.apple.Preview.TrustedBookmar ksService.xpc/Contents/_CodeSignature/CodeResources to (null)
7/30/12 1:05:30.385 PM com.apple.backupd[320]: Error writing to backup log. NSFileHandleOperationException:*** -[NSConcreteFileHandle writeData:]: Invalid argument
7/30/12 1:05:30.386 PM com.apple.backupd[320]: Error writing to backup log. NSFileHandleOperationException:*** -[NSConcreteFileHandle writeData:]: Invalid argument
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7/30/12 1:05:30.386 PM com.apple.backupd[320]: Error writing to backup log. NSFileHandleOperationException:*** -[NSConcreteFileHandle writeData:]: Invalid argument
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7/30/12 1:05:31.000 PM kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
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