Time Machine only shows "Today". Can't access old stuff but no errors

Maybe I am missing something but I plugged in an external HD and the first time machine went well. It does its thing each hour but when I go into time machine all I see is Today/Now with no ability to restore anything or anything older than today. I know it has older stuff since yesterday it said the same thing and it has taken the proper space on my external hard drive.

It does sound like you're using a networked attached TM backup device wrt the disk image mounting on your Desktop. This is the case when people have hacked the system to be able to employ a USB2 device to their AirPort Extreme Base Station (AEBS).
In the case of the dmg image - when it's mounted via doing a Back Up Now quickly invoke the TM browser and you should immediately see all the TM backups/snapshots. If you keep the TM browser active even after the Back Up Now has completed then browsing will still be possible. However, once you terminate the TM browser you will be back to not being able to use it unless you do another Back Up Now. This is the rather cumbersome method that exists today with networked and AEBS connected USB2 devices, and clearly one of the reasons why Apple pulled the use of networked and AEBS connected Volumes from their web site one week before releasing Leopard GM on Oct 26.

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    I just bought this external USB hard disc, and what I did was I put all of my pictures in there because I need space for my computer. What I did after that , is that I configured the hard disc with Time Machine, to clear some space also and to "protect" my data. But now I can't use my hard disc, I can't see my pictures I had in it and I can't use it for Time Machine either.
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    I started using TimeMachine so that I could wipe my internal HD and be able to restore the settings. Now that I've wiped the HD TimeMachine doesn't seem to be doing what I expected it to do or I don't know how to restore the files.
    Any help would be wonderful!

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