New HD and New Wireless Configuration - Input?

The hard drive on our iMac needs to be replaced so as I'm figuring out what to get and how big, etc. I'm seeking input.
Here's what we have:
Intel-based iMac 17" (the one needing the new HD)
MacBook
1TB Time Capsule base station with DSL connection
AirPort Extreme to extend our wireless network and with the following connected to it:
- Sharp internet-enabled TV
- DirecTV (soon to be torpedoed for Uverse I think)
- Sharp internet-enabled Blue Ray player
- 2G Apple TV (the new tiny one without the HD)
We'll eventually replace the iMac with a bigger one and hand the 17" down to the kids. In the meantime, because we're not incredibly happy with the Apple TV's performance (I just got it for my wife for Christmas) I'm thinking about switching some things around like so:
- Get a 2TB HD for the iMac and point the Time Machine backups of the iMac and MacBook to a separate 1 or 1.5TB partition on the new HD.
- Swap the AirPort and Time Capsule so the AirPort is now our base station
- Move our iTunes music and movies to the Time Capsule it could become a media server and connect all of the A/V stuff to it
Is there a compelling reason to back up to an external drive or is the separate partition ok? Will Apple TV perform better if it's connected (via ethernet cable of course) directly to the disk that the media is stored on? Any other pitfalls or land mines I'm not seeing?

If you mean to connect the drive to your Airport, don't. Backing-up that way is not reliable and +*not supported by Apple.+ See [Using Time Machine with an Airport Extreme Air Disk|http://web.me.com/pondini/Time_Machine/Airport.html] (or use the link in *User Tips* at the top of this forum).
A better solution would be to back the iMac up to one directrly-connected disk (or partition); and back the MacBook up to a separate partition on the same disk, or separate disk, connected to the iMac. See #22 in [Time Machine - Frequently Asked Questions|http://web.me.com/pondini/Time_Machine/FAQ.html] (or use the link in *User Tips* at the top of the +Time Machine+ forum), for setup instructions.
I wasn't planning on attaching a drive to the AirPort. I was going to get a big internal drive and partition off a piece of it for the backup. Then I was going to use our Time Capsule as a media server, extension for our wireless network, and switch for our TV, Apple TV, etc.

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