Time Capsule Works for a while, then starts faililng.

Time Capsule is my only wireless access point/Time Machine backup, single 1TB HDD.
It'll work great, has about 792GB Backed up to it from my three computers in the house.
My wireless devices are:
Apple TV (40G)
iMac Core 2 Duo
Mac Pro
Nintendo Wii
IBM Thinkpad (evenings)
iPhone
Every once in a while, with no discernable pattern, my Time Machine backups start failing.
Looking in the error logs under console I see this message:
5/5/08 4:46:40 PM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[5531] Starting standard backup
5/5/08 4:46:40 PM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[5531] Mounting disk image /Volumes/Tom Boucher's Time Capsule/antares.nomorestars_0017f20240ac.sparsebundle
5/5/08 4:47:01 PM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[5531] Failed to attach to disk image, returned: 35
The only way I can get it to fix is to reboot the time capsule.
Any ideas what is causing this?

You may have enough bandwith for USB audio if your USB ports are 2.0 but, as the Li've! 24-bit External seem to be USB . device, the limitation may come from there. But still, it should work w/ 6-bit/44. kHz w/o bandwidth issues.
Do you have IRQ(s)/resources for those USB controllers, you have plugged the device, shared w/ some other devices/controllers?
Have you tried w/ USB-ASIO drivers?
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