Time Machine Fails Every Time - No back ups for over a week

I am running 10.6.6 on a mac pro. I have a 2GB G-Data hard drive that is partitioned into 2 section one for time machine and the other for storage 500 GB and 1.5 GB respectively. The drive is connect by firewire and up time last week was working fine. I tried running disk utility on the drive but it comes up with no problems. Here's what i'm getting in error logs. The files it's having issue with open just fine in photoshop and quark.
Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=256 UserInfo=0x102ea69c0 "The file “nick.jpg” couldn’t be opened." Underlying Error=(Error Domain=NSPOSIXErrorDomain Code=20 UserInfo=0x100141690 "The operation couldn’t be completed. Not a directory")
Feb 9 11:29:52 toy-dmcgee com.apple.backupd[393]: Stopping backup.
Feb 9 11:29:52 toy-dmcgee com.apple.backupd[393]: Error: (-41) SrcErr:NO Copying /Users/lstormes/Desktop/collision april 09/collision card/Fonts/ARIAL.TTF to /Volumes/Time Machine/Backups.backupdb/SNE-ADV-SUPZ/2011-02-01-135259.inProgress/52DA871E-D64 6-4F48-9DBC-FD1AF43A88F7/Macintosh HD/Users/lstormes/Desktop/collision april 09/collision card/Fonts (tried deleting the whole folder and still issues)
Feb 9 11:29:52 toy-dmcgee com.apple.backupd[393]: Copied 4409 files (1.7 GB) from volume Macintosh HD.
Feb 9 11:29:52 toy-dmcgee com.apple.backupd[393]: Copy stage failed with error:11
Feb 9 11:29:57 toy-dmcgee com.apple.backupd[393]: Backup failed with error: 11

this is what it gives me:
Feb 9 13:45:04 toy-dmcgee com.apple.backupd[1550]: No pre-backup thinning needed: 16.67 GB requested (including padding), 20.83 GB available
Feb 9 13:45:11 toy-dmcgee [0x0-0x1a01a].com.xrite.ColorMunkiTray.design[166]: profileDate: "2009-08-24T13:20:30"
Feb 9 13:45:11 toy-dmcgee [0x0-0x1a01a].com.xrite.ColorMunkiTray.design[166]: Now DateTime: QDateTime("Wed Feb 9 13:45:11 2011")
Feb 9 13:45:11 toy-dmcgee [0x0-0x1a01a].com.xrite.ColorMunkiTray.design[166]: Reminder DateTime: QDateTime("Wed Jan 12 13:45:11 2011")
Feb 9 13:45:21 toy-dmcgee [0x0-0x1a01a].com.xrite.ColorMunkiTray.design[166]: profileDate: "2009-08-24T13:20:30"
Feb 9 13:45:21 toy-dmcgee [0x0-0x1a01a].com.xrite.ColorMunkiTray.design[166]: Now DateTime: QDateTime("Wed Feb 9 13:45:21 2011")
Feb 9 13:45:21 toy-dmcgee [0x0-0x1a01a].com.xrite.ColorMunkiTray.design[166]: Reminder DateTime: QDateTime("Wed Jan 12 13:45:21 2011")
Feb 9 13:45:30 toy-dmcgee com.apple.backupd[1550]: Stopping backup.
It doesn't look like anything has an error

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