Time Machine backups failing (error 22) on Time Capsule

Hi
I've been happily using my Time Capsule as a Time Machine backup for the last year or so. Two MacBooks have worked just fine on there, along with a network drive to store some of the wife's files which won't all fit on her Air.
Last night the firmware was updated on the TC and now whenever I try to do a backup on either my MacBook Pro or the MacBook Air I get the following error:
The backup disk image “/Volumes/Data-2/Adrian’s MacBook Pro.sparsebundle” could not be created (error 22).
The backups have always gone into a folder "Data" on the TM previously, and whenever a TM backup began I got a dark green TM disk icon on the desktop. Now this doesn't happen and the above error shows after the TM tries to prepare the disk.
I've tried deleting the .com.apple.timemachine.plist file from the Library Preferences to recreate that, no good. I've tried rebooting both TC and MBP. I've tried moving my old backup to a different folder to start afresh. Nothing has helped.
I also cannot access the old backups - I get this error:
An unexpected error occurred (error code -6584).
I have 1TB space remaining on my 2TB TC, so that shouldn't be an issue. I've tried rolling back the firmware using the Airport Utility as well, but this hasn't helped either.
I'm running OS X Lion 10.7.3 on moth MBP and MBA.
And with that I'm stumped as to why something that was so reliable should now suddenly stop working. The last backup was showing as yesterday at 21:22, which would have been just before I did the update. The only other thing I may have done last night was to map a network drive on the MBA so the wife can connect to her folder on the TC more easily.
Any ideas/solutions gratefully received! Thanks in advance!

Sounds like the backups may be damaged. Try to Repair them, per #A5 in Time Machine - Troubleshooting

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Using Terminal to mv or cp the files locally on the mac HD. This fails with I/O Errors
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I've confirmed that the files are readable by the application. iMovie in this case. I was able to play the video content. So I belive that the files are in fact ok and good.
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I've also confirmed that JPG file had this error in the /var/logs/system.log. I was able to open the JPG with preview and iPhoto with no issues. But, I can not copy or move the file to any locations on either the HD or the Backup HD.
Permissions on the files are rw-r-r. In another case I changed them to rw-rw-rw and that still did not make a difference as I would have expected.
My fear is that my Mac HD is getting ready to take a DUMP literally. Most of the stuff on the machine I don't care about however I do care about the family photo's and videos. To this point I've been able to manually backup my photos to the external disk. I have not yet backed up my videos. Starting to get stressed about that. I was about to take the PC in to Apple Care at the local store but wanted to disucss here as well. Any help would be appreciated.
Excerpt from /var/logs/system.log just prior to backup failing last night.
Jul 3 06:26:32 mikes-imac com.apple.backupd[1285]: Copied 165 files (78.0 MB) from volume Macintosh HD.
Jul 3 06:26:32 mikes-imac com.apple.backupd[1285]: Copy stage failed with error:11
Jul 3 06:26:32 mikes-imac mds[36]: (Error) Volume: Could not find requested backup type:2 for volume
Jul 3 06:26:43 mikes-imac com.apple.backupd[1285]: Backup failed with error: 11
Jul 3 07:19:15 mikes-imac xpchelper[1683]: for uid: 0 -- timeout while waiting on FSEvents flush; clearing cache.
Jul 3 07:25:49 mikes-imac com.apple.backupd[1285]: Starting standard backup
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Jul 3 07:25:50 mikes-imac com.apple.backupd[1285]: 94.26 GB required (including padding), 313.25 GB available
Jul 3 07:25:50 mikes-imac com.apple.backupd[1285]: Waiting for index to be ready (101)
Jul 3 07:26:32 mikes-imac com.apple.backupd[1285]: Stopping backup.
Jul 3 07:26:32 mikes-imac com.apple.backupd[1285]: Error: (-36) SrcErr:YES Copying /Users/{mac username}/Movies/iMovie Events.localized/Pre-K Graduation/clip-2010-06-17 19;24;00.mov to (null)

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Feb 24 01:40:22 jordan-martons-imac kernel[0]: disk0s2: 0xe0030005 (UNDEFINED).
Feb 24 01:40:22 jordan-martons-imac kernel[0]:
Feb 24 01:40:22: --- last message repeated 1 time ---
Feb 24 01:40:22 jordan-martons-imac /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[204]: Error: (-36) copying /Users/jordanmarton/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music/Maroon 5/Songs About Jane/12 Sweetest Goodbye.mp3 to (null)
Feb 24 01:40:42 jordan-martons-imac kernel[0]: disk0s2: 0xe0030005 (UNDEFINED).
Feb 24 01:40:42 jordan-martons-imac kernel[0]:
Feb 24 01:40:54: --- last message repeated 1 time ---
Feb 24 01:40:44 jordan-martons-imac /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[204]: Error: (-36) copying /Users/jordanmarton/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music/Martin Page/In the House of Stone & Light/01 In the House of Stone and Light.mp3 to (null)
Any idea what is going on?

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