Time Machine Exclude Items Not Working

So I just started using TM, or rather trying to use it.
I have a pretty big HD to backup, and since 200GB of it is just a copy of one large folder on a server I wish to exclude it from backup. So I go into Time Machine and click the "Options" button, click "+" and add the folder (it's actually ~/Documents/Audio). Everything looks fine, it tells me the size etc. Then I click "Done".
Trouble is, when I look again in the list the folder is gone. In fact no matter what I try I cannot add any folders to this list. Time Machine seems to totally throw away anything I add to the exclude list.
Any ideas anyone?
--Tim

So, I'm having somewhat the opposite problem, Time Machine is busily "Excluding..." items, currently up to about 6 million and going strong. The problem is, sort of the opposite you were experiencing, I have no files/drives in my exclude list, yet it is finding something to exclude.
I stopped it last attempt, when it had excluded some 30 million items, seemed to be making no progress whatsoever, and followed the troubleshooting hints for a full reset #A4 (http://web.me.com/pondini/Time_Machine/Troubleshooting.html). Just for grins I also erased the drive again, to start with a clean slate.
I'm backing up to a WD 1 TB drive connected to my old G4 PowerBook running 10.5.8, and connected to it over the network, with the machine and the drive shared out. I can see the drive and files, and can read from and write to the drive. TM has no issue mounting the drive, and has written a small file to it (~1 gb so far).
Is this symptomatic of some other odd TM behavior, or should I just let it run and see what it does?
Thanks for any insights,
--Jon

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