Problems after adding an external HD to my Time Capsule

Hello... I had asked some questions back in July about expanding my Time Capsule capacity for Time Machine in the following discussion:
https://discussions.apple.com/message/15573533#15573533
I have finally recently implemented this solution over the Labor Day weekend. Here is my scenario:
1st generation Time Capsule, 1 TB, supporting Time Machine sparsebundle backups for 2 MacBook Pros, and filling up.
I have added a 2 TB external hard drive via USB.  I connected the external HD to a Belkin 4-port powered USB hub using a USB device cable.  I connected the hub to the Time Machine USB port using a USB to mini-USB cable.
I then changed the Time Machine backup for one of the MacBook Pros to go to the external drive.  I started a backup to allow the sparsebundle file to be created, then cancelled the backup.  I connected the notebook directly to the Time Capsule via ethernet cable and restarted the backup so it could write the first complete sparsebundle more quickly.
It all seemed to have worked out perfectly.  But since then, I have other Macs on the home network (iMacs and a Mac Pro) which will fire an alert that another device on the network is using their IP address.  When looking in the Console app, I can find in the system logs that the device using the IP address of the other Mac is the Time Capsule (identified by the network mac address).
I suspect that something about the addition of the external hard drive to the Time Capsule is causing this.  This past Saturday, we shut down all devices on the network (Macs, a printer, Time Capsule + air disk), router, and cable modem.. then gradually brought them back up one by one.  I thought it was solved... but it did not stay solved, as we experienced IP address conflicts again yesterday on the iMac and today on the Mac Pro.
I would greatly appreciate any suggestions as to a cause and a resolution... Thanks in advance...

I continue to have the Time Capsule hardware address grabbing the IP address of other computers on my home network.  Typically, it appears that the IP addresses it takes are those of computers on the wired ethernet network, versus wireless devices.  I have not been able to pinpoint whether the IP address grab occurs when the Time Capsule and its external drive are connecting to the MacBookPro to do a Time Machine backup, or at some other time.
Asking another question, therefore.... will I be able to solve this issue if I go to AirPort Utility and change my Time Capsule from DHCP to a static IP Address?   I know DHCP is preferable, but when Time Capsule grabs the IP address of another device, DHCP is not assigning another IP address to the computer whose address has been grabbed.
Please help!
thanks

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