Time Machine backing up the same amount of data EVERY time

Just upgraded to a MBP 17" and started new backups on a clean drive a couple of days ago. First backup took about 14-15 hours and now everytime it does a subsequent backup it is backing up 5.0G every time.
Any idea why? I have never seen it do this before and I have NOT been downloading/adding anything to my machine. Find it hard to believe I am getting 5.0G of cache data from browsing web sites every few hours.

John Potts wrote:
Mine does the same, except it's "only" 1.4GB each time. It does this even though zero new data has been added to the hard drive (by me).
I have tried TimeTracker as recommended above but it seems to be very pre-beta indeed: according to the log, each Time Machine backup adds 0KB. And the original backup was also 0KB.
The backups will show zero until you click them, or set the Preference option to +*Automatically load backups.+* And the first one always shows zero (you really don't want to wait while it calculates the size of everything that was on your system). If they still show zero, you may be using an account that doesn't have permission to see them. Try signing-on as an Admin.
Moreover, when I invoke TimeTracker it remains on the desktop and can't be quit.
Did you try Quit? Either from the menubar or Cmd-Q?
I have my VM folder marked as excluded from back up, along with three external hard drives. Obviously, something must be going on that I don't know about. Are there are other tools that track the TM backups (in addition to TimeTracker)?
Try the BackupLoupe application, at: http://www.soma-zone.com/BackupLoupe/
But you'll likely have the same problems with it as you did with Time Tracker, as they don't sound like problems with the app itself, but your permissions.

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