TimeMachine is spinning "forever"

TimeMachine (TM) was working well during 2008 with my setup (Mac mini with external 320 GB HD via USB) until I updated Leopard 10.5 to the most recent version 10.5.5 and not running TM for a couple of days.
Starting automatic backup, TM shows symptoms described in "Mac OS X 10.5: Time Machine may display "Preparing" for a longer time" (article TS1516) <http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1516>.
TM spinned for about 12 hours (overnight), but created just a <actual date>.inProgress packet with a size of 24 kB. Inside is the (empty) directory "Applications". The pref pane of TM just tells me 12 kB of 3,9 GB. I even can’t stopp TM anymore, nor bei choosing the menu neither by switching it off. TM only stops when removing the external HD, by ejecting it via Finder. I haven’t seen any error messages from TM.
The extrernal HD seems to be OK, since I can copy files to and from it and it has still plenty of space.
How can I reactivate TM, since I was quite happy with it?

I forgot to attach some lines from syslog:
Nov 10 22:06:05 Diamant /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[1026]: Backup requested due to disk attach
Nov 10 22:06:05 Diamant /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[1026]: Starting standard backup
Nov 10 22:06:06 Diamant /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[1026]: Backing up to: /Volumes/Sicherungskopien/Backups.backupdb
Nov 10 22:06:08 Diamant /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[1026]: Event store UUIDs don't match for volume: Festplatte
Nov 10 22:06:08 Diamant /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[1026]: Node requires deep traversal:/ reason:kFSEDBEventFlagMustScanSubDirs|kFSEDBEventFlagReasonEventDBUntrustable|
Nov 10 22:06:09 Diamant mds[33]: (Error) Import: importer:0x852a00 Importer start failed for 501 (kr:268435459 (ipc/send) invalid destination port)
Nov 10 22:06:24: --- last message repeated 6 times ---
Nov 10 22:30:52 Diamant /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[1026]: No pre-backup thinning needed: 6.23 GB requested (including padding), 204.89 GB available

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