How can I automatically mount a sparsebundle image prior to TimeMachine backup?

I've been searching for a couple of days now a way to have Time Machine backup to a drive attached via USB.  The drive is a Western Digital 1TB hard drive formatted as NTFS and I'm using Tuxera to read/write from it.  I created a 300GB sparsebundle image with 256bit encryption via Disk Utility and was successfully able to mount the image and perform an initial backup via Time Machine.  All was well until I got an error stating that the backup image couldn't be loaded due to Error -1.  My guess it's because the image is dismounting and when Time Machine states it's looking for the backup image, it's unable to mount it.  I've added my password to the KeyChain Access section but am forced to manually mount the image prior to backing up or the backup fails.
Most of the articles I've read deal with network backups but I only have one MacBook Pro Retina Display (Mid-2012) running Mountain Lion 10.8.2 x64 and would like to keep my Windows backups separate.  I'm not using a NAS and my setup is a BlackX enclosure holding the 1TB hard drive.  Is there something I can do to have Time Machine automatically mount the image prior to backing up?
I wrote a small AppleScript to automate the mounting but I want the whole process automated.  I read iCal can help me but apparently it'll pop-up a window that I don't have to want to deal with.
Also, backing up about 36MB takes around five minutes so I'm not thrilled about the speeds.  Hopefully there's also a solution for it.  I also tried Carbon Copy Cloner and (forgot the name of the other utility) but reading through the features, I just want to keep it simple with Time Machine.  I'm mostly concerned about corruption and loss of my data though I'm not sure how much better Time Machine is but am receptive to any suggestions.
Thank you for your help.

drag the dmg to the dock, right click, and "open at login?", that should achieve what you want

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