Time Machine Backup turns on the display

After using the Sleep Display script in Tiger from Dockables, it was a pretty welcome relief to see that you could put your display to sleep with a hot corner = D.
However, I can't get the display to stay sleeping consistently. Whenever Time Machine starts backing up, the display wakes up, which is pretty irritating. I've tried editing the preferences file to change the backup interval, but that isn't really eliminating the problem so much as reducing the frequency of it. The only thing that works is unmounting the external drive and then putting my display to sleep, which is troublesome to say the least.
Are there any workarounds or fixes? My computer goes to sleep just fine, (the drive included), so Time Machine only interferes with Display Sleeping = (.

hmm...any ideas? I think it may have to do with the energy saver pref. to sleep hard drives when not in use. Because periodically, while the computer is sleeping, the drive wakes up and starts making noise, and then the display wakes up :S. Would it have any effect on display sleeping? (eg. Pulling a USB drive out while the computer is sleeping will wake it up and display the unsafe drive removal warning, even without a mouse click or keypress...could it be a similar effect?)
Anyways...I'm also not so sure whether it's an issue with my external hard drive either. It's a 500 GB WD My Book

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Miguel.Miami wrote:
what has happened before is I look at it and see that its grayed out and when I opend Prefs panel I see that the time Machine has been switched to OFF. Which is very wierd, I was wondering if anyone has had this problem. It just happened to me today, I saw that is was grayed out again, and looked the last backup was Dec 30th....
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