Time machine after system migration

Recently my iMac (running 10.5.8) was stolen. Bought a new laptop (running 10.6) and restored my system from Time Machine. Worked perfectly! Problems started when I wanted to continue the backups from the new computer. First time I tried it after 7 hours it was stuck at 12% (when system restore took 2-3 hours). Other times I tried it it got stuck at the stage of "calculating changes". I tried changing the name of the computer to start a completely new set of backups. That didn't work either. I'm thinking of erasing the external drive (Iomega 1.5T, out of which 1.25 T is free) and starting over again. Any suggestions? How can I force Time Machine to start a new set of backups and leave the old ones alone?
PS1. How can I delete an *inProgress file? Standard delete doesn't work
PS2. Latest Time Machine Buddy output:
Starting standard backup
Backing up to: /Volumes/Time Machine Backups/Backups.backupdb
Detected system migration from: /Volumes/Time Machine Backups/Backups.backupdb/trane/2009-09-20-224854/Macintosh HD
Event store UUIDs don't match for volume: Macintosh HD
Node requires deep traversal:/ reason:must scan subdirs|new event db|
Message was edited by: Themis

OK, I got a new drive and started anew. I have about 250GB to copy. Although it starts very well (about 1 GB/min) after a few hours it becomes so slow that it's unworkable. After six hours it's stuck at 214.73 GB. This being the case, I will have to stop using Time Machine. I'll just occasionally copy the folders I need.
Here's TM buddy output:
Starting standard backup
Backing up to: /Volumes/Time Machine Backups/Backups.backupdb
Ownership is disabled on the backup destination volume. Enabling.
Detected system migration from: /Volumes/Time Machine Backups/Backups.backupdb/trane/2009-09-20-224854/Macintosh HD
Backup content size: 249.4 GB excluded items size: 15.0 GB for volume Macintosh HD
No pre-backup thinning needed: 281.30 GB requested (including padding), 930.58 GB available
Waiting for index to be ready (101)
Copied 57.6 GB of 234.4 GB, 197939 of 4396098 items
Error: (-8084) SrcErr:YES Copying /Users/.../Library/Mail/SearchHistory.plist to (null)
Copied 123.2 GB of 234.4 GB, 557306 of 4396098 items
Copied 173.7 GB of 234.4 GB, 1051457 of 4396098 items
Copied 197.8 GB of 234.4 GB, 1464207 of 4396098 items
Copied 199.7 GB of 234.4 GB, 1559383 of 4396098 items
OK, I may have a large number of small files, but why should that be a problem? And why do I have this problem on the laptop when TM worked fine on my old iMac? Does the detection of system migration make a difference?

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