Sparsebundle file: how to recreate?

Very dears all,
I have browsed many discussions but none seems to meet my problem:
There is an iBook with a Lacie Disk (FW connected) for TimeMachine. Due to the big size of the Lacie Disk (350GB) I decided to also use TM for the MacBook. Then I used the FW plug to connect the Lacie to the MacBook and started TM. It finished OK.
I reconnected the iBook and the Lacie and TM is still going on OK.
Then, I stopped TM because the Lacie was not connected.
When I reconnected MacBook to Lacie, after starting TM, it was recovering the old back so I can enter TM and see the back up made on August 7th but if I start an immediate backup it does not re-connect to the old back up but it starts a new one (which cannot go on because the disk has not enough space).
I checked that any forum is talking about sparsebundle file in the TM drive (Lacie Disk, in my case), but I have no sparsebundle file for neither the MacBook not the iBook.
But the question is that on iBook the TM is backing up regularly.
I did not change my MAC address of the Ethernet port (if it may be useful).
I was also looking for the preferences file for TimeMachine, to check if there is any problem in the path for the driver to use for the backup, but I didn't found it.
Many thanks,
Carmine

Very dears all,
upgrading to 10.5.5 TimeMachine was able to recover the path of the driver/folder in the right way.
Many thanks,
Carmine

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