Okay - I need to know if this is how it's SUPPOSED to be

The following are my experiences with TC, and I don't know if they're normal or if something is wierd:
1) "Time Capsule Disk" shows up on my desktop, but not in my finder window where most directly-connected hard drives would also show up.
2) When I connect an external hard drive to the TC it shows up neither on my desktop OR in the finder. To get to it I have to go to "Shared Devices" in the finder, click on my Time Capsule Icon and then click on the drive, which shows up as a folder icon.
3) playing movies from an external hard drive over the network is choppy and not really usable. The transfer of files from that drive to my own computer is super slow.
4) My downloads folder will NOT backup. Whenever I choose it the backup fails.
5) I have backed up two computers to my TC. Each computer has left a single file on the TC drive - each ending in ".sparsebundle". I read that this is only left if there is a problem, BUT when I tried to use Time Machine it worked. When I double click on the .sparsebundle file it mounts that system's backup as a removable disk on my system.
6) my TC has never really gotten hot, only warm, and I've never heard a fan come on.
If people could lend some thoughts to these various issues/statements I would GREATLY appreciate it!!

Thanks for the response!
1) If I do that, then the TC shows up under "shared devices", but to see external hard drive connected to the TC, I have to first click on the TC in Shared Devices and then the external drive shows up as a folder. Is there any way to have it show up were it would normally "mount" - like near the iDisk, My Hard Drive, etc.?
3) Yes, the external drive is connected via USB - isn't that the only option? Actually I tried it again last night and had much better luck. During a 22 minute show it skipped maybe 4 times, and not that badly. When I play files directly from the TC they play perfectly.
4) Ya, what I meant was that my backups had been failing until I erased the disk and excluded my downloads folder. Once I did that everything was fine, but when I re-include it, things seem to break again.
5) That's good to hear - though I could have sworn that when I had Time Machine running onto an external hard drive connected directly to the computer (before TC) I saw the full file structure without having to mount any .sparsebundle file.
Also - The "date modified" of the .sparsebundle files is staying at the time they were originally created, not the latest backup. When I mount the file I see all the sequential backups, but not until then. is that normal?

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