Time Capsule stuck at 9KB of 480MB and won't stop trying

I've had a 1TB Time Capsule since last April backing up a MacBook, MacMini and iMac on the network successfully since then. Two days ago, on the MacBook, the backup got stuck at 9KB out of a projected 480MB regular write. This went on for several hours until I decided to flip the switch to "Off" to stop it and try again. For a while, the progress bar changed to the barber-pole "Stopping" and the "Stop Backing Up" choice grayed out, but then went back to trying the 9KB out of 480MB write again.
Eventually, it stopped (still at 9KB). I recycled the TC, rebooted the MacBook and did a "Repair disk permissions" using the Disk Utility on the HD. Then tried to crank up the TC again. Same problem - stuck on 9KB of 480MB. Next thing I tried was to re-index the HD in Spotlight Preferences, which seems also to be stuck and I have no Spotlight now. Tried the TC backup but still no change to the problem - stuck at 9KB.
All this time, backups from the other machines are working fine so my problem is clearly with the MacBook files and/or the TC backup files for the MB.
Any suggestions would be much appreciated.

Situation resolved!
On another thread in the Time Machine forum, someone said there can be problems with the OS X 10.5.6 update with Time Machine and Time Capsule. The recommendation was to download the 10.5.6 Combo update from the Apple Support web site and install it. Although I was already at 10.5.6, I downloaded it again and re-installed it. After doing this, the Time Machine backups worked ok again.
Apparently there can be problems arising if the 10.5.6 update was done from the Software Update function rather than from the web site.

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*_Time Machine May Report "Preparing..." For a Long Time_*
Consider these factors regarding an extended period of "Preparing...". Consider each topic separately and do not attempt to act on all of them at once.
*Recent Crash or Other Major System Event* (Deep Traversal)
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*Software Updates* #
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It's good for that . . .
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