Lots of 0kB text files in home directory

I am using a MacBook Pro with Mac OS X 10.7.2. Last week, I had a hard drive corruption and restored my MB Pro from a Time machine backup and the Lion Startup partition. While I was fortunate that only a days worth of data was lost, all has not been completely smooth.
1) There are a lot of text files of 0 kB with either no name or non-sensical names beginning with a percent sign and other non-sensical characters (e.g. %E1%DB %F6ޝo^%EF%FEۆ%83%A7wkx8) in my home directory /Users/isaac.
2) The 500 GB partition that I have been using for Time Machine to back up the internal 320 GB hard disk is now not large enough to back up the volume. There is only one backup on the drive (the one I used to restore), but Time Machine won't complete the backup although there is 197.5 GB available. I thought that time machine didn't make complete backups and wondered why this has become a problem after the recent re-install.
There have been some runaway processes that I can't isolate that heat up the computer (72 F) and start the fan a whirring 4400 rpm.
I don't know if these are related to previous kernel panics that would intermittenly freeze and crash my Mac (the ciscovpn agent seemed to be the process that was always the final process before the crash), but I thought I'd mention them anyway.
Are these issues foreshadowing future doom?
Your thoughts are welcome. Thank you.
Aric

Aric Newton wrote:
2) The 500 GB partition that I have been using for Time Machine to back up the internal 320 GB hard disk is now not large enough to back up the volume. There is only one backup on the drive (the one I used to restore), but Time Machine won't complete the backup although there is 197.5 GB available. I thought that time machine didn't make complete backups and wondered why this has become a problem after the recent re-install.
Sounds like TM wasn't able to figure out what happened. When you did the restore, the disk got a new UUID (Universally Unique IDentifier), that OSX uses to keep track of drives (rather than the name). So it's treated as a different drive. Ordinarily, when you do a restore, it leaves a "trail" so Time Machine can automatically connect the "new" drive to the old backups. Sometimes, though, it doesn't.
You may be able to get it to "associate" the "new" disk with the backups, per #B6 in Time Machine - Troubleshooting.

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