Exlusion of all external flash drives/ipods/psps etc.

Hi.
Is there a way to make Time Machine not back up the all the flash drives / external drives that i plug in?
I was using a usb stick, a psp and a ipod at one .. and time machine crashed because it wanted to copy them ... silly :P
i know there is the manual way .. but that only works for ONE specific external drive only .. is there a way to tell it to back up only the stuff from the internal hd only?!
thanks
eponalank

Yes, go into Options in TM Prefernces and add or remove drives as you wish.
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