Time machine ballsed after up date 10.5.3

Well, I'll bang this here although I suppose there is little anyone can do to help.
I have months worths of backups in time machine for mac book stored on my airport extreme harddrive. After the update and even if I manually mount the drive and the sparse bundle for my mac book time machine does not see the volume and will not back up.
Not the end of the world as I have not lost data, but still a peeve.

I am having the same problem.
I make backups prior to installing any updates... so Time Machine / Time Capsule had just performed a backup prior to installing 10.5.3 (so I know it was working). I waited for Time Machine to completely finish and show that it was just waiting for the next backup interval before I started the update.
After the 10.5.3 update, it can no longer mount my sparse image. I'm attempting to mount it manually -- so far it's been hanging on: Opening <name of sparse bundle image> for the last 45 mins or so.

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