Time Machine doesn't seem to be working properly

I have two 500 GB internal drives striped as one 1 GB drive and two 500 GB external drives also striped as one 1 GB drive. The external HDs are used EXCLUSIVELY for Time Machine.
I just tried to temporarily store a several GB folder on the ext TM HD and was told it did not have enough space. I opened up the external TM drive and found it only had 1.55 GB available. I looked at the backup folders and found the first folder was named "2007-11-25-235220" and the last folder was named "2007-02-19-083645."
DOES THAT MEAN THAT MY LAST BACKUP WAS ON 02-19-08? I thought that TM was supposed to erase the oldest backups when the HD became full.
In addition, I noticed that there was one folder for every day until and including 02-17-08. Then there are sixteen 02-18-08 folders and eight 02-19-08 folders. Again, I thought that TM backed up once an hour and each day erased the previous 23 backups leaving one one backup for each day.
I'm a graphic designer and this is my primary computer. I thought TM was doing an adequate backup for me. Obviously, it's not. WHAT HAS HAPPENED AND HOW DO I FIX IT?
Thanks for your help.

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