Time Capsule Backup Keeps Aborting

I just moved from Windows to Mac...Happily, so far!
I am using a Time Capsule to back up my MacPro. It worked beautifully until I just loaded up about 37 gig of Windows related material to my MacBook. Since then, all attempts at backing up have failed. The first error message said that if the condition continued I had to repair my backup drive using the Disk Utility. I did that, the back up drive had no faults on it. Now, I am able to get more of a backup going, but it aborts about a tenth of the way through the process. I have reinstalled the Time Capsule software. Does anyone have any idea what is going on?

Yes, I am ok with distinctions between Time Capsule and Time Machine. I have a new 1T Time Capsule which has worked flawlessly so far. I have been backing up over a wireless connection. I managed to download the Time Machine Buddy, and it is telling me that back-up was aborted because Indexing failed. I've pasted the log from the TMB below. I have xxx'd out my name.
+Starting standard backup+
+Attempting to mount network destination using URL: afp://xxx-Time-Capsule.local/xxxTim+
+Mounted network destination using URL: afp://xxx-Time-Capsule.local/xxx's%20Tim+
+Disk image /Volumes/xxx's Tim/xxx’s MacBook Pro.sparsebundle mounted at: /Volumes/Time Machine Backups+
+Backing up to: /Volumes/Time Machine Backups/Backups.backupdb+
+No pre-backup thinning needed: 1012.1 MB requested (including padding), 910.00 GB available+
+Indexing a file failed. Returned 200 for: /Library/Internet Plug-Ins/QuickTime Plugin.plugin, /Volumes/Time Machine Backups/Backups.backupdb/xxx’s MacBook Pro/2010-01-13-131832.inProgress/361B8281-2365-4C7E-ACFA-3202E8052E0E/Macintosh HD/Library/Internet Plug-Ins/QuickTime Plugin.plugin+
+Aborting backup because indexing a file failed.+
+Stopping backup.+
+Copied 130 files (10 KB) from volume Macintosh HD.+
+Copy stage failed with error:11+
+Backup failed with error: 11+
+Ejected Time Machine disk image.+
+Ejected Time Machine network volume.+
I look forward to hearing back from you. Thanks, very helpful suggestions

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