Macbook 2,1 does not back up on Time Capsule 2TB

Just installed a brand new TC and two Macbooks are (auto-)backing up fine.  The oldest in the club, however, gives me a spinning wheel right after opening Preferences.  It's a 2GB RAM MacBook of 2006, and is running OS X 10.6.8.  Any idea why this is?  Thanks.

Launch the Console utility and type "backupd" (without the quotes) in the search field.  Examine the resulting messages to see if they offer any help.  If you see things that might explain the problem but you can't understand them, paste them into a message in this thread so that someone can help you.
You might also find help with Time Machine Troubleshooting.
By the way, since your Time Capsule seems to be working fine, your Time Machine problem would probably have been better posted in the section that deals with your OS X version, such as Mac OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard.

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