Time Mach is backing up EVERY file EVERY time!!

I'm having a problem here, or else things are very different than people have been saying....
When I first upgraded to 10.5 and Time Machine, I had File Vault installed. Then I read how it would back up the whole home folder every time... ick.... so I turned File Vault OFF.
So now it's backing up individual files, just like I had hoped.... EXCEPT, for some reason, it's backing up EVERY file, EVERY time. Not just the initial backup. Not just the changed files. EVERYTHING.
I was wondering how I used 250GB on my backup drive since YESTERDAY!!!! Here's what I get if I do a "Get Info" on the individual backup folders....
8:42 am -- 55.47GB -- 181,188 items
9:32am -- 55.22 GB -- 181,229 items
10:32am -- 55.23 GB -- 181,233 items
Okay, so what gives?!?!?! Do I need turn do something to reset this out of control thing and hopefully get it set to backing up only the CHANGES?!? This is why I turned File Vault Off in the first place, so I wouldn't have 55GB backups every time.
Any help would be GREATLY appreciated!!!! Now let me unplug my hard drive before it get completely full while just sitting here, surfing the internet.....
Thanks,
Donovan

Right-click (or CTRL-click) on the icon for your Time Machine hard drive on the Desktop and select Get Info from the menu that pops up. That will show you the actual amount of free space left on that drive.
You can also see it by going to System Preferences / Time Machine while your Time Machine drive is mounted.
Every backup folder in your Time Machine reflects the ENTIRE file system of your computer (excepting items in your Do Not Back Up list and certain items that are automatically rebuilt from scratch such as cache files). That means if you do a Get Info on any of those backup folders you will see the size reported as matching the size of your file system. However, not all that data is in every backup folder. The vast majority of the files you see in the backup folder are actually "hard links", a special kind of pointer, pointing to a real copy of the file that was transferred during some previous backup, perhaps going all the way back to your initial backup. So every backup folder represents the whole file system, and is reported as being that big by the Finder, but in actuality most of the data is scattered through your prior backups and your initial backup -- just one copy. Only new files/folders or changed files/folders get transferred into each new incremental backup.
--Bob

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