Is it working? (Backups confusing)

I have some suspicions that Time Machine may not be working correctly on my MacBook Pro. First, I bought an external hard drive and partitioned it. My hard drive is about 100 GB, so I created a 100 GB partition formatted Mac OS Extended (Journaled) and named it Mac.
When I click on Mac in Finder, I find two images and the folder Backups.backupdb. I copied the images to that partition before I set up Time Machine, thinking Time Machine would automatically erase the partition before it start backing up files to it.
When I double click on the folder Backups.backupdb, it reveals another folder named MyName's MacBook Pro 17. Double-clicking that folder reveals 18 folders. One is named Latest, and the others are named with dates (e.g. 2008-01-01-123205, 2008-01-02-000038). After attending an Apple class last night, I now understand that I should have made my partition BIGGER than my internal hard drive, because Time Machine stores multiple backups.
But now I'm confused. I thought Time Machine essentially CLONED my hard drive, and the most recent backup would be exactly the same size as my hard drive (~95 GB). After viewing these folders, it appears to me that Time Machine is working correctly, but my assumptions about Time Machine were wrong.
If my hard drive suddenly crashed, and I bought a new hard drive, would I be able to restore my older hard drive's operating system, files, settings, etc. from Time Machine? Or would I have to start from scratch, reinstalling Leopard, then reinstalling all my programs?
If Time Machine can't restore a hard drive, then do I need to create a new partition and find some other method to clone my hard drive to it, re-cloning it every so often to keep it current?
And I have yet another question. My initial Leopard installation wasn't working too well. Someone who helped me troubleshoot it discovered massive memory problems. He decided one reason for the problems was Time Machine. He said it was attempting to do a backup even though my external hard drive wasn't connected at the time. But someone else told me Time Machine is designed to automatically go to sleep if it doesn't sense an external hard drive.
Can someone tell me what's going on here? Do I really need to turn Time Machine off every time I disconnect my external hard drive?
Thanks.

Hello David:
You have a bunch of questions. I will try to address the ones where I might shed some light:
What you describe in the first part of your post seems to track with my time machine backups (I frankly never looked inside the folders).
Time machine does NOT clone the HD - it backs up whatever has changed from the previous backup.
You should allow time machine all the space you can - partitioning the HD will cause it to - eventually - begin to delete your older backups.
To restore your entire HD from a time machine backup, you would boot from your install DVD and then move on from there (Apple's help menu goes into great detail, if you are interested).
Before Time Machine I used to routinely make bootable clones of my internal HDs. After using Time Machine for awhile, I probably will stop doing that as it is, in my case, redundant.
As far as I know, time machine is not active when no external drive (the time machine backup) is offline.
A question - what do you mean when you say your system +"wasn't working too well?"+ There are many things that might be suggested, but without more information, none that I would make as they might not address the issue.
Barry
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If you are an SAP Business One Partner, you can go to the SAP PartnerEdge Portal using your "S" number to login and then under the SAP Business One section you can choose "License Request" and view the FAQ at the bottom of the page with respect to SAP Business One licensing.
If you are not a partner ... here are the answers .....
1. SAP Business One 2005 and 2007 are the same with respect to licensing.
2. If the hardware key changes, which ut may if hardware components change on the machine Business One is installed, you may be required to acquire a new license. You should be able to speak with your SAP Partner of Channel Manager to give back what you have and get a new one. It purely depend on of the Hardware ID changes due to the change.
3. Same as #2 above.
4. Each user that logs into SAP Business One requires a named user license. The Hardware ID for the License is based on the machine where the license server is installed.
HTH,
Eddy

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