Time Machine Issue when going from WiFi Network to Ethernet cable

I have my WD network drive attached to my router so I can do Time Machine backups wirelessly. I updated my ancient Mac to Snow Leopard the other day for software reasons, and when I went to backup via Time Machine it said I had 4.6GB to backup. Ok. Don't understand why, but assume it has to do with the OS update. I thought it would quicker to do it through the Ethernet cable, but when I unplugged it from the router and into the Mac Time Machine said it couldn't locate it. that seemed very, very odd. I put it back into the router, and it re-appeared. The bummer is, after two days it's less than half way through the backup. I'm just going to keep it going and hope for the best, but if anybody has any thoughts on this Im all ears.

I decided to change the external drive setup to be a wireless drive over our home network, plugged into my Airport Extreme
Unfortunately, Apple does not support Time Machine backups to a drive attached to the USB port on the AirPort Extreme.
Some users seem to be able to make this work anyway, some have some success and some have no success. At best, it is not a reliable method to protect your data.
Time Machine stores backups differently depending on whether the drive is attached directly to your Mac compared to a drive that works over a network.
That's why Time Machine will make a complete new backup of your Mac when the drive is located at the AirPort Extreme. It may well be that there is not enough space on the drive to allow this.
Options...
1) keep the drive attached to your Mac. This is supported and works well.
2) Erase the drive or add a new drive and start over with a new complete backup on the drive at the AirPort Extreme
If you go for #2, I would suggest that you also develop a secondary backup plan in case things do not work out.
I've experimented 3-4 times with Time Machine backups at the AirPort Extreme and in each case.....they work fine for a few weeks or so. Then I get messages that the backups have become corrupted and I have to "repair disk". This works a few times until I cannot repair the disk and must erase the drive and start over again.
Your resullts, may of course be different.

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Hi. I recently purchased the new 27" iMac and just completed migrating all data from an old PPC iMac. When I went to activate Time Machine and begin backing up on an existing 1TB Time Capsule, I received the following Time Machine error: "The backup disk image "xxxx" iMacG5 sparsebundle" is already in use."
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