Duplicate backups of external disk to Time Capsule

I am backing up to a Time Capsule. Backup of the internal disk (Machintosh HD) is working fine. I also have an external firewire disk (Media) with my itunes library on it - when I connected in the external disk, it got backed up by Time Machine too.
So all seemed well, until tonight. The problem is that I don't always connect the firewire disk - so for a couple of nights, Time Machine was backing up the internal disk only. Tonight when I did connect the external disk, Time Machine backed up the entire disk, from scratch again!
It looks like Time Machine can't handle looking back through previous backups in a disk orientated way...it misses that 'Media' was last backed up 3 backups ago, so starts from scratch.
2008-08-31-002721/Macintosh HD <- incremental files only
/Media <- incremental files only
2008-09-01-202431/Macintosh HD <- incremental files only
2008-09-02-194944/Macintosh HD <- incremental files only
2008-09-03-193024/Macintosh HD <- incremental files only
/Media <- copies all files!
Anyone else seen this?
Apple: any chance of a fix for this?
Tim

Of course. Your Time Capsule won't use the external drive to store backups (they will be stored in the Time Capsule's hard disk), so you can use the external drive to store other data.
After plugging the external drive onto the Time Capsule, open a Finder window and you will see the external drive in the sidebar, under "Shared"

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