Time machine-- can't see more than 2 weeks back.

I recently discovered that I can't see back more than 2 weeks on my Time Machine. Last month I could see back forever, relatively speaking. My WD 320 has roughly 32GB free space left, so all the data must be there, but I can't access it. Any ideas?

Did anything unusual happen lately, such as hardware repairs, a full restore, etc.? If so, Time Machine may have had to do a very large or even full backup, requiring lots of space, so it had to delete a bunch of old backups.
Although I haven't actually verified that you and Camelot have the right answer, i'm satisfied that you both have the correct answer. Unfortunately, i'm not familiar enough with using this user-discussion group to respond correctly (i credited Camelot with a 'helpful answer' instead of 'correct answer', and i can't find my response to him).
Time Machine - Troubleshooting
for a handy widget that will display the backup messages from your logs. Use it to navigate back through recent backups, and see if there's a very large backup listing a lot of deletions. If so, copy and post the messages here.
I haven't yet been able to download this widget-- server must be super busy. I'll keep trying, later.
Thanks,
pk

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