Installed Lion yesterday and Timemachine doesn't work.

Timemachine starts up but then advised that it failed as either the drive was ejected or disconnected.  I can see and open the drive with Finder as well as open a couple of files I have on the drive.  Once I do that, and restart the backup, the system tells me that the backup file is in use.   I have an external drive connected through Airport Extreme and is formatted for the iMac.

No, you were misled, partly because Apple won't put anything on it's website or train their reps.
As noted in the link, it does work, sometimes, to a degree, for some people.
But most likely, your backups will turn up corrupted, probably beyond repair, sooner or later.  There are many, many threads in this forum saying exactly that.
This has been the case since Leopard was released (and Time Machine introduced), about 4 years ago.
There might be a new Airport Extreme coming, but after 4 years, an update to the old ones is not in the cards.  It appears to be some limitation in the hardware, or Apple would have fixed it already.

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