Time Machine Problems - Please Help!

I am fairly new to the world of Mac's, purchasing my first in late November 2010 and i have recently been investigating Apples own Time Machine software as a means of backing up my Mac. I had an Iomega 1TB Home Media Network drive which i had connected via ethernet to my router and my Mac was on wireless. When Time Machine saw the network drive it refused to back up to it and then occasionally it didn't see it at all. I then decided to use this drive just for the Windows PCs in my household and not for my Mac as i thought it may not be backing up because i have Mac backups and Windows backups on the same drive without partitioning. I have now got a Freecom Classic 3.5" 500GB hard drive connected directly to the USB in my Mac and Time Machine sees it and begins the backup. I get so far and then i receive the error "The backup was not performed because and error occurred while copying files to the backup disk" - i have installed the Time Machine buddy widget from Apple and have looked into it, this is what i get:
Starting standard backup
Backing up to: /Volumes/Macbook Pro Backup 1/Backups.backupdb
Error parsing SystemMigration.log to determine source volume of system migration.
Backup content size: 58.7 GB excluded items size: 4.9 GB for volume Macintosh HD
No pre-backup thinning needed: 64.52 GB requested (including padding), 455.32 GB available
Error: (-36) SrcErr:NO Copying /Applications/AlpineCrawler.app/Contents/Resources/aahh_02.aif to /Volumes/Macbook Pro Backup 1/Backups.backupdb/Macbook Pro/2011-04-12-190436.inProgress/A63BA24E-781B-4368-B837-3A4DCA67834D/Macintosh HD/Applications/AlpineCrawler.app/Contents/Resources
Stopping backup.
Error: (-8062) SrcErr:NO Copying /Applications/AlpineCrawler.app/Contents/Resources/aahh_02.aif to /Volumes/Macbook Pro Backup 1/Backups.backupdb/Macbook Pro/2011-04-12-190436.inProgress/A63BA24E-781B-4368-B837-3A4DCA67834D/Macintosh HD/Applications/AlpineCrawler.app/Contents/Resources
Copied 0 files (387 KB) from volume Macintosh HD.
Copy stage failed with error:11
Backup failed with error: 11
So the Errors are:
Error parsing SystemMigration.log to determine source volume of system migration.
Error: (-36) SrcErr:NO Copying /Applications/AlpineCrawler.app/Contents/Resources/aahh_02.aif to /Volumes/Macbook Pro Backup 1/Backups.backupdb/Macbook Pro/2011-04-12-190436.inProgress/A63BA24E-781B-4368-B837-3A4DCA67834D/Macintosh HD/Applications/AlpineCrawler.app/Contents/Resources
Error: (-8062) SrcErr:NO Copying /Applications/AlpineCrawler.app/Contents/Resources/aahh_02.aif to /Volumes/Macbook Pro Backup 1/Backups.backupdb/Macbook Pro/2011-04-12-190436.inProgress/A63BA24E-781B-4368-B837-3A4DCA67834D/Macintosh HD/Applications/AlpineCrawler.app/Contents/Resources
Copy stage failed with error:11
Backup failed with error: 11
I have tried everything and looked through the forums finding people with similar problems - i have tried Verifying my Internal HD, Repairing my External HD and have tried running Tech Tool Deluxe - all of which cannot find any problems. I have also tried excluding this file but Time Machine just finds the same error with the next file in alphabetical order in the folder - i should also add it is not just the folder Applications. Can someone please tell me if i am doing something wrong as this is always a possibility with my inexperience with Macs.
Thanks for your help and sorry it's a little long winded.

Time Machine can back up to some NAS (Network Attached Storage) devices, if they meet Apple's criteria. But there are some downsides; see the pink box in #2 of [Time Machine - Frequently Asked Questions|http://web.me.com/pondini/Time_Machine/FAQ.html] (or use the link in *User Tips* at the top of this forum).
But yes, even if it supports Time Machine, backing-up both Windoze and OSX to the same partition is unlikely to work.
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Error parsing SystemMigration.log to determine source volume of system migration.
That's not really a problem; it just means Time Machine isn't sure whether you "migrated" your data from a different Mac.
Error: (-36) SrcErr:NO Copying /Applications/AlpineCrawler.app/Contents/Resources/aahh_02.aif to /Volumes/Macbook Pro Backup 1/Backups.backupdb/Macbook Pro/2011-04-12-190436.inProgress/A63BA24E-781B-4368-B837-3A4DCA67834D/Macintosh HD/Applications/AlpineCrawler.app/Contents/Resources
I have also tried excluding this file but Time Machine just finds the same error with the next file in alphabetical order in the folder - i should also add it is not just the folder Applications.
That's the kind of thing we see when there's a problem with a file or the destination; often a bad connection. But if it's happening on every file, obviously it's something much more serious.
Is the external HD formatted properly? See #C1 in [Time Machine - Troubleshooting|http://web.me.com/pondini/Time_Machine/Troubleshooting.html] (or use the link in *User Tips* at the top of this forum).

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