Time machine seems to have losts valauble brain cells

Time machine on my macbook is seriosuly stupid. When you wake the macbook up and there is no network available time machine will constantly try to mount the disk to back up (I back up over my home network)
The consequence to this can be devastating. For instance if I try to open or save anything the finder cannot find the network either and allt hat occurs is you get a system wide crash.
This used to happen in 10.4 and 5 and seemed to be fixed for a while in 6, but its back with a vengence.
It mightn ot be time machine persay, but an issue of the fact that snow leopard is a bit stuipd so does not realise that if a network is not available its not going to find the disk that was on that network.
So why does it not just stop looking instead of crashing my mac?

Gary i wrote:
TM will constantly attempt to find the disk, it will spin dumbly all day.
But I think this is merely the manifestation of a larger issue in that SL is too stupid to work out that my network is not there.
No. It doesn't on mine when I am at work - it looks once, fails and gives up so the fault is somehow in your machine. In fact, when I reconnect to the TM at home, it will not restart until I prompt it to do it. This is how it operates when not being confused by something. The something is in your machine, not in the TM or TC interface so lets try and find out what the problem is.
Could you download the Time Machine Buddy Widget and let it run when you are next at work and extract the logs. Post them here please. ? We can then see what is happening.
Initial thoughts are that somehow your system thinks the backup drive is mounted even though it isn't there and so it will try and keep backing up. Normally when you disconnect, or a drive isn't there, there is an ignore button which one can use to temporarily fool the system while a backup drive is being swapped for example. Its almost as if someone is pressing the Ignore button and the backup drive is staying mounted.
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