Time Capsule Ignoring my 'Excluded' Folders

Hi,
This is my first time backing up with Time Capsule / Time Machine. I excluded quite a lot of stuff that I have backed up elsewhere -- I have a 140 gb drive and the TM settings say "Total Included: 75 gb." However, when I start my backup, the progress bar always says "XX out of 131 gb."
It could be that the progress indicator is wrong, and it will quit once it reaches the needed 75 gb. But it's going REALLY slow - like 8 gb in an hour - and I don't want to wait that long. If it's going this slow, I've read I may want to re-format the drive. But it's my friend's TC and I don't want to mess with her files already on the drive so I'm not going to do that.
Is there any way to just get it to pay attention to my settings?
Thanks,
Josh

I'm having exactly the same problem. I have a brand-new 1TB Time Capsule, and the first time I tried to back up to it I excluded some folders and ran Time Machine. The Time Machine menu was initially correct, saying
"Backing Up: x of of 40GB"
Unfortunately, it didn't stop at 40GB, and the menu eventually said
"Backing Up: 50.53GB of 50.53GB"
"Backup Up: 80.02GB of 80.02GB"
etcetera, until it had backed up my entire computer. I went into Time Machine ("Enter Time Machine") and confirmed that it had indeed made backups of the folders and files that I had excluded.
After that, it made incremental backups (I assume it was still ignoring the exclusions). However, when I changed the excluded files, it thinks it has to back up virtually the whole computer again, the Time Machine status now reads
"Backing Up: 15.53 GB of 89.16GB"
This, again, looks like the correct calculated amount, but it will probably continue to back up past that all the way to 105 GB (my whole hard drive) again. I'll know tomorrow.
I know this problem is related to this Time Capsule, as previously I was using Time Machine with an external hard drive with no problem.
I searched for solutions to this problem and found Pondini's suggestion of deleting the Time Capusule .plist file. I did this, and deleted my whole sparsebundle file as well for good measure, but it didn't fix the problem.
I can't let Time Machine back up my whole computer because I have a VMware Windows virtual machine and Time Machine would try to back up the whole ~15 GB file every hour every time I go into Windows.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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