Mac mini refuses to recognize existing TM backup set

I just got my mac mini fixed with a new logic board, and I have it connected to a 250GB external FW drive. Time machine was running on a partition on the external drive quite happily since I bought it in November, but since getting it back from the repair, it refuses to recognize that there is an existing backup set on the drive. The hard drive is identical after the repair, machine name is identical, etc.
The machine name is "Wintermute" and there is an existing directory in Backups.backupdb - when I try to run a backup run, it creates a directory "Wintermute 2" and bails out with insufficient disk space (it's trying to do a full backup)
If I right-click Time Machine in the dock and select "Browse Other Time Machine disks" I can select the existing backup and it seems to be OK. However, I can't seem to continue adding to that backup set!
Any suggestions?

Here are the contents of my backup volume if it helps at all:
bash-3.2$ ls -al
total 16
drwxrwxr-x  13 skye  skye    510 Jan 18 09:32 .
drwxrwxrwt@  5 root  admin   170 Jan 18 10:50 ..
-r--------   1 skye  skye     16 Nov  3 17:03 .0016cbac0d11
-r--------   1 root  wheel    16 Jan 18 09:32 .0016cbac4103
-rw-rw-r--@  1 skye  skye   6148 Jan 18 09:48 .DS_Store
drwx------   3 skye  skye    102 Nov  3 16:57 .Spotlight-V100
drwxrwxrwt@  3 skye  skye    102 Nov 29 20:34 .TemporaryItems
d-wx-wx-wt   3 skye  skye    102 Jan 18 10:50 .Trashes
-rw-r--r--   1 skye  skye      0 Nov  3 16:57 .com.apple.timemachine.supported
drwx------  10 skye  skye    340 Jan 18 10:50 .fseventsd
drwxr-xr-x+  3 root  skye    102 Jan 18 11:03 Backups.backupdb

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