Time Capsule hangs in initial backup after having deleted all data.

Hi,
I'm having a big problem trying to set up my time capsule after deleting all data on it again.
In the beginning the problem was that I have used the time capsule as a file server and a backup volume. I guess it was the main problem was that the disk was full and time machine had no more place to backup any longer.
So I always got an error that the time machine had a problem to backup.
I decided to delete all data on time capsule and start from the beginning.
After deleting all data and trying to start from zero, Time Machine is trying to initiate the backup.
But nothing more happens. It seems to hang up while initiating. I tried to delete the disc several times but the problem is still occuring.
Maybe you had the same difficulties and found a solution?
Thanks a lot for your help!
Carsten.
Macbook Pro Core 2 Duo 2,2 GHz Mac OS X (10.5.4) 4 GB Ram

same here although I get to "finishing Backup" and then mine hangs and it can be hard to shut down. I discovered the only way I could get it to stop once was to launch Disk Utility and eject the sparsebundle listed there. I have no backups at all.I will call Apple on Monday and see if they have anything floating around there that might fix us. I will report back-If you make any progress please let us know here! We will get this thing working I am sure of it!

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