I know, another Time Machine help request

I get the Time Machine back up error. I recently purchased a Seagate GoFlex Desk external drive. Time Machine seemed to recognize it right away. The following morning I found the dreaded "Time Machine could not complete the backup. Unable to complete backup. An error occurred while creating the backup folder."
I have formatted the external drive per Pondini's step by step; MAC OS Extended (Journaled). No luck. Then I downloaded Time Machine Buddy Widget. I don't know how to copy the error messages in the pop-up. Apparently it is having an issue with a movie that was downloaded from Itunes. I proceeded to exclude it (band-aid). However, I will run Time Machine again and it will have a problem with another file. The error code is consistent; Error (-36)
Starting standard backup
Backing up to: /Volumes/TM Backups/Backups.backupsdb
Event store UUIDs don't match for volume
No pre-backup thinning needed 135.88 GB requested (including padding), 1.80 TB available
Your help will be greatly appreciated!

kenfromlo wrote:
I get the Time Machine back up error. I recently purchased a Seagate GoFlex Desk external drive. Time Machine seemed to recognize it right away. The following morning I found the dreaded "Time Machine could not complete the backup. Unable to complete backup. An error occurred while creating the backup folder."
See #C10 in Time Machine - Troubleshooting (but see the next item first).
I have formatted the external drive per Pondini's step by step; MAC OS Extended (Journaled).
Did you select the GUID Partition Map Scheme? If not, reformat it that way.
Then I downloaded Time Machine Buddy Widget. I don't know how to copy the error messages in the pop-up.
Click in the message area, select Cmd+A (to select All), then Cmd+C to copy.
(Or, if you mean the TM failure message, a screen print is fine.)
Apparently it is having an issue with a movie that was downloaded from Itunes. I proceeded to exclude it (band-aid). However, I will run Time Machine again and it will have a problem with another file. The error code is consistent; Error (-36)
See the pink box in #C3 of Time Machine - Troubleshooting.

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Thanks all for taking the time to provide excellent and thorough replies!
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TeenTitan wrote:
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*Excellent! And also straight inline with what Pondini wrote below. Plus, I was missing the fact that, if I chose the Airport Extreme method I would need to first configure the wireless network with the ext. HD and then do the initial backup via the ethernet port on the Extreme.*
*Also, please see my summary below/final questions to check if I am going on the right path now.*
Csound1 wrote:
Please ignore any advice about connecting TM drive to the USB port on an Apple Extreme, that method is neither reliable or supported by Apple!
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DMerz wrote:
Personally, I would prefer to directly connect the drive to each machine, at the end of the day, and do a daily backup.
Pondini wrote:
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