Timemachine automatic back up doesn't turn on

i recently had some issues with errors with my mbp running lion 10.7.5...i ended up reinstalling os and everything seem to work fine as i had expected. when i went to turn on my automatic back up...i noticed the on button in the timemachine preferences does not turn on and when i exit and come back to the preferences window i could see that it was off. also, the timemachine indicator on the status bar is greyed out. can't seem to find anything anywhere to fix the situation. i did delete com.apple.timemachine.plist and restarted mbp but that didn't do anything...any help would be appreciated.

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