System Pref toggle immediately turns off

I have a laptop here in the office that won't connect to Time Machine anymore. I deleted his sparseimage on the remote disk and tried to set it up from scratch but the On/Off toggle immediately goes back to Off. Choosing the disk doesn't do anything. I deleted files /Library/Preferences/com.apple.TimeMachine* and it still doesn't work. I'm probably missing something simple, what should I try to make it work?

What Mac do you have, and what version of OSX are you on? (You might update your profile so that shows automatically).
This is a rather unusual problem. I don't recall seeing it in this forum, at least not in the last few months (but then my memory isn't perfect, either . It sounds a bit like it's something to do with the Time Capsule, which I'm not familiar with. Perhaps a password issue? You might check the TC forum, somewhat hidden under +Digital Life+ at: http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=1253
If that doesn't help, you might want to look in your logs for a clue. Use the Console app (in your Applications/Utilities folder). When it starts, click +Show Log List+ in the toolbar, then select +All Messages+ in the sidebar that opens up.
There's lots of techie gibberish there, but you'll see it's organized by date and time. So when your Mac isn't busy, quit as many apps as you can, then attempt to turn TM on and note the exact time. Then check the log for any messages around that time. If you find something suspicious, copy and post it here. (Or in the TC forum, if it seems related to that.)
Otherwise, assuming you're on 10.5.6, or don't have a problem upgrading to it, you might want to install the "combo" update. It contains a consolidation of all updates since Leopard was released, thus may fix anything that's gone wrong with any updates since you got Leopard. Download and info is at: http://support.apple.com/downloads/MacOS_X_10-5-6_ComboUpdate

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