Time Machine progress bar

I recently upgraded from an iMac G5 running Leopard to an i5 MacBook Pro, and I had a specific issue with time machine that I would like to resolve.
With the G5, after activating TM, I always got a small Finder-like window showing the progress of the backup. When I started using TM in the new computer I also got this progress bar showing on the desktop (not part of TM Preferences window), but suddenly it disappeared and now I cannot find a way to make it appear on the desktop.
I cannot think of anything in particular that I did to make the window not to display. This progress bar is quite useful for me and would appreciate any help to have it display again.

Thanks, the question has been moved to the correct forum now.
It seems the TM progress bar cannot be selected/de-selected from the menu bar, nor the TM preferences panel. Based on some other discussions it seems I'm not the only one that has observed this problem, but haven't seen yet a posting with the solution.

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ClayG wrote:
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Does Time Machine backup system files (/usr/local/*)?
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