Tale of Two Macs

Help! I have two Macs, my 18 month old Intel iMac and a 6 month old MacBook Pro. Initially after a struggle, several restarts, and temporarily using Ethernet I got the Time Capsule working with the iMac. Then I tried the MacBook Pro which backed itself up to TC smoothly on WiFi. Now the iMac won't talk properly to TC again. But open up the MacBook and it smoothly and immediately backs itself up.
Both machines are running identical fully up-dated versions of Leopard. The only difference I can see between them is the amount of data, 200 GB on a 500GB HD on the iMac, but only 20GB on the MacBook Pro. The iMac tries to back itself up, but throws one of two error messages, either could not connect to backup disk, or "Error setting up backup directory".
Any suggestions very welcome!

On the iMac, do you see TC on the Finder under Shared?
If you can see it, can you mount it as well?
After it's mounted, do you see some files named "iMacName12345678.sparsebundle" in the root of the volume?

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