Restored a folder, now TM takes forever and when done, won't unmount

i use TM over wifi with a 500gb WD mybook partitioned down the middle, one for me and one for my wife's macbook. it's worked flawlessly ever since we got it six months ago - even allowing me to do a full restore at one point a few months ago.
yesterday, i accidentally deleted my contacts in a dot me snafu, so i restored my address book folder from a backup, and everything was fine.
then, when backing up yesterday evening, i got a "backup failed" error. after repairing permissions, i tried to force a backup, which worked - but it took several hours. this morning, a simple 1.4mb backup took ten minutes. and the disk image both times wouldn't eject.
any ideas?

Hi again:
I'm cautious too, especially when making suggestions to people! Since I have never been in your particular situation, I hesitate to suggest what you should do.
I will tell you what I would do - but that is me. I would trash the preference file and then proceed with setting up TM. Alternatively, I would wipe the TM partition and let it make a brand new backup. I do think something is clobbered in the preference file - again long range supposition.
Barry

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