Reasons for Time Capsule not ejecting after backup?

Running 2010 17" MBP, 8GB, upgraded to Lion.
After backups, the TC drive stopped auto ejecting sometime last night.  I can eject it manually, and as far as I can tell backups are still occurring normally.
After doing some searching I tried using the privacy settings to prevent Spotlight from indexing the TC data folder where the backup sparsebundles go, and rebooting.  Didn't help.
Anyone have some ideas on what might be causing this, and what I can do to correct it?
Thanks in advance!

Okay. I guess any mysterious occurrance is potentially going to have an equally mysterious resolution. It just started ejecting the TC drive normally after backups. I've done nothing, changed nothing--it just started working again.
I think I'll have a drink now.  Thanks anyway!

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