No Drives In Time Capsule

I am setting up time capsule for the first time and at the first step I am stumped. When I open time capsule I appear to have the option to turn it on or off or to choose a back up disk. Both options lead to a drop down menu (that is empty and that appears to normally include a list of drives but mine is empty). On the drop down I have three options, 1) set up time capsule, 2) cancel or 3) use for backup (which is greyed out and appears to be expecting that I have selected one of the drives that is not listed). When I choose set up time capsule it opens the airport utility which shows the several airport express units that I have in operation for playing music. The time capsule help button says follow the airport instructions. There are none other than continue through several screens which results in a restart of the express unit. Does not appear to have changed anything and when I return to time capsule to continue setting up nothing is changed and no drives are available. Any advice/help will be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

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I've been searching for weeks for a solution to my problem. Here's the story I've come across since I installed Leopard on Oct. 26, 2007.
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Michael Wilde1 wrote:
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