Time Machine filling up my primary hard disk?

I have a 2 month old Intel iMac with a 1 TB drive and about 300 GB of data on it. I ran time machine and got a full back up to an external 1 TB drive and all worked great. Then I learned about excluding files so I deleted my TM backup on the external drive, configured TM to exclude system files, and turned TM back on.
It gives me the count down to the next backup and then begins and I get "Time Machine Error". This backup is too large for the backup volume. The backup requires 1099.6 GB but only 926.2 GB are available.
I did this step over a few times and tried various things knowing that I only had about 300 GB of data. But then I looked again and found that my 1 TB drive was full; only 2 GB is available. There must be 700 GB of files hiding somewhere because I can't find it with the finder. My next step will be to use the terminal and look around, but it would be easier if someone knew where TM creates its temp files.
Any idea on how to get rid of TM's temp files?

oh my bad. I hate it when people don't read posts carefully. i guess I am guilty of that as well. I'll look into this, but are you sure these are "hidden" temp files. have you done the obvious stuff like repair permissions in disk util, holding down option while you empty the trash, that sort of thing.
(EDIT)
Your best bet is terminal. but you could have used the "Delete all backups of ((whatever you decided that you wanted excluded))" feature in TM instead of deleting your entire TM backup.
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That should say "Now none of the laptops (a MacBook and an iBook) will see either external drive..." I hate typos.
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