Time machine doesn't honor exclusion list for initial backup

Hi all,
Have a MacBook Pro with Max OS X v 10.6.7 and 1 TB Time Capsule, where around 500 GB are already used for some files. For the initial Time Machine Backup I want to exclude my home directory, because it is quite large (around another 500 GB). Time Machine estimates around 32 GB for the Backup. I click on Backup Now and a couple of hours later I see still activity and has already backuped some 100s of Data including my home until it reaches the full space of the Time Capsule and crashes.
So my question is why does Time Machine does not honor my exclusion list, especially for the inital backup ?
kind regards, thomas

Hi, downloaded also the Combo, which seems not be entitled for my MacBook Pro, which is a brandnew one with thunderbolt.
as this german description will tell not that much, these are the both files I tried
iTomMacBookPro:Downloads turbotiga$ ls -al M*.dmg
-rw-r--r--@ 1 turbotiga staff   386096795 21 Mär 17:14 MacOSXUpd10.6.7MBPEarly2011.dmg
-rw-r--r--@ 1 turbotiga staff 1056039272 21 Mär 17:14 MacOSXUpdCombo10.6.7.dmg
still no success ... Anyway as I have installed the OS from scratch with the 2 CDs two weeks ago without any issues I still wonder, what could cause the problem ... I mean, if in the property files the exception would not be there, I would think there is an issue ... but that's not the case.
As you see in the log everything looks good
iTomMacBookPro:2011-06-19-222425.inProgress root# cat .Backup.330207865.713754.log
2011-06-19-22:24:25 - Starting backup
Previous snapshot:
          None
Will traverse "Macintosh HD" (mount: '/' fsUUID: 7AD08EB2-BA93-3999-B150-6E5758282CE7 eventDBUUID: F0A21238-5A2E-4FA5-93D9-7B2CA7DCD599)
=== Starting backup loop #1 ===
Will use FirstBackupCopier
Running preflight for "Macintosh HD" (mount: '/' fsUUID: 7AD08EB2-BA93-3999-B150-6E5758282CE7 eventDBUUID: F0A21238-5A2E-4FA5-93D9-7B2CA7DCD599)
          Excluding /.Spotlight-V100: 477.4 MB (86 items)
          Excluding /.Trashes: 0 bytes (0 items)
          Excluding /.fseventsd: 3.3 MB (358 items)
          Excluding /.hotfiles.btree: 64 KB (0 items)
          Excluding /Users/Shared/SC Info: 208 KB (0 items)
          Excluding /private/var/db/efw_cache: 4 KB (1 items)
          Excluding /private/var/db/Spotlight: 0 bytes (1 items)
          Excluding /Volumes: 4 KB (2 items)
          Excluding /Network: 0 bytes (0 items)
          Excluding /.vol: 0 bytes (0 items)
          Excluding /cores: 0 bytes (0 items)
          Excluding /private/tmp: 4 KB (5 items)
          Excluding /private/tftpboot: 0 bytes (0 items)
          Excluding /private/var/folders: 233.5 MB (173 items)
          Excluding /private/var/run: 60 KB (18 items)
          Excluding /private/var/tmp: 20 KB (4 items)
          Excluding /private/var/vm: 4.1 GB (2 items)
          Excluding /private/var/db/dhcpclient: 8 KB (3 items)
          Excluding /Library/Caches: 424 KB (14 items)
          Excluding /Library/Logs: 14.0 MB (40 items)
          Excluding /System/Library/Caches: 20.6 MB (22 items)
          Excluding /private/var/log: 9.6 MB (101 items)
          Excluding /private/var/spool/cups: 8.2 MB (14 items)
          Excluding /private/var/spool/fax: 0 bytes (0 items)
          Excluding /private/var/spool/uucp: 0 bytes (0 items)
          Excluding /private/var/db/dyld: 406.9 MB (11 items)
          Excluding /Users/turbotiga/Library/Calendars/Calendar Cache: 112 KB (1 items)
          Excluding /Users/turbotiga/Library/Mail/Envelope Index: 3.9 MB (1 items)
          Excluding /Users/turbotiga/Pictures/Bibliothek iPhoto/AlbumData.xml: 8 KB (1 items)
          Excluding /Users/turbotiga/Pictures/Bibliothek iPhoto/iPod Photo Cache: 0 bytes (0 items)
          Excluding /Users/turbotiga/Pictures: 13.1 GB (10357 items)
          Excluding /Users/turbotiga/Documents: 84.0 GB (44150 items)
          Should copy 713920 items (32.2 GB) representing 8446828 blocks of size 4096. 113138003 blocks available.
Preflight complete for "Macintosh HD" (mount: '/' fsUUID: 7AD08EB2-BA93-3999-B150-6E5758282CE7 eventDBUUID: F0A21238-5A2E-4FA5-93D9-7B2CA7DCD599)
Time elapsed: 26.969 seconds
Processing preflight info
          Space needed for this backup: 38.7 GB (10136193 blocks of size 4096)
Finished processing preflight info
Copying items from "Macintosh HD" (mount: '/' fsUUID: 7AD08EB2-BA93-3999-B150-6E5758282CE7 eventDBUUID: F0A21238-5A2E-4FA5-93D9-7B2CA7DCD599)
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and then something goes wrong in paradise ...

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