TM Did a FULL backup AGAIN today...

Got rid of my WD HD (from the Apple Store) as it kept freezing my MBPro w/10.5.1 & would no longer finish a backup. Bought a new LaCie @ Apple Store yesterday and first BU w/TM took 1 hour for 30 GB.
Today after a few short multi-minute TM backups, I used Pacifist to put iPhoto back on the MBPro, and TM then did a FULL backup of 30 GB which took another hour, just like yesterday.
1. Is there some known reason for this?
2. Can this be prevented?
3. Can you manually access the data off of a corrupted HD (possibly like my WD which would get in an endless loop with TM). Attempting to copy files or folders off a TM set said I didn't have sufficient privileges, in spite of me signing in as root.
Without the ability to wind up recovering usable files manually (with HD damage), I have some doubts about Time Machine.

It indeed appears that "Error: (-8088)" on iPhoto.app is at the heart of the problem in 3-4 notes in the log. Subsequent backups (maybe after the Software Update ran) did not note any further errors. I also saw a Windows TT font & some Windows files give an error once, so I deleted those files, even though subsequent backups did not show the error again.
The following is the "-8088" error regarding iPhoto:
1/10/08 12:50:46 PM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[580]
Error: (-8088) copying /Applications/iPhoto.app/Contents/Frameworks/DotMacKit.framework/PrivateHeaders to /Volumes/LC3/Backups.backupdb/BoMBP15/2008-01-10-124632.inProgress/89702617-393 F-4AC7-B360-EE9CDBF8F993/MBPx51/Applications/iPhoto.app/Contents/Frameworks/DotM acKit.framework
Prior to that I note: "1/10/08 11:25:07 AM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[3758]
Event store UUIDs don't match for volume MBPx51"
That seems to imply that the extraction and install of iPhoto changed the volume identification.
I considered deleting the backup, and see what happens, though that might trigger another FULL backup, so I'll leave it. I do not think I can identify what went on with the prior Western Digital HD faults, however, as there is no console log going back to those dates for some reason.
Thanks Much

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Brycycle wrote:
i do not wish to let it do a full backup so as to save space on my time capsule but this is the log up till when it started transferring data.
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