TM Skipping some files during backup

I've posted this question over on the TC board, because at first I thought it was related to the actual hardware. However, today I did a new back up to an external WD drive via firewire. The back up when fine, as did a few subsequent backups. Then TM acts like it is backing up. I can enter time machine and see all the hourly back ups. However, when I look for a specific file that was just recently added/deleted/etc. it was missed by TM.
Any suggestions for what is going on? I would greatly appreciate any help.
Thanks!

Are there any relevant console messages (backupd process)? And is this just a particular file that doesn't appear in the backup or do no files appear in the backup? What exactly are you seeing?

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kevin123456789 wrote:
what does time machine do when I move a file while it is backing up, where will the file or folder go when backing up, will it be in the area i had it in part 1 or part 2. please explain.
it depends. at the beginning of every backup TM checks to see what needs to be backed up and does it. at the end of a backup it does another very quick backup to see if anything has changed since the start of the backup. if you move a file after TM already backed it up it will back it up in both places. if you move it before it has a chance to back it up, it will only back it up in the new location.
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Lee and Rob,
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Rob, thank you sir... I appreciate greatly some possible solutions to implement. The CollectionPreseter sounds very interesting. I am relatively new to Light Room 3 (working through Kelby's book at the moment tryng to learn), so please excuse any lightly thought out questions.
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feinberj wrote:
I've got filevault turned on for my mac Mac Mini (10.6.2). I'm using Time Machine to back up to a firewire drive. There's plenty of space - my Mini hd has 250 Gb of 500 used, and I'm backing up to a 750Gb partition on the external drive. The initial backup went OK, and when I logged out it backed up my filevault-protected home directory. When I logged back in, I was able to browse the Backups.backupdb on the external drive, go to the users directory, and open the sparsebundle that was my filevault-protected home directory (after entering the password). I can browse through this backup of my home directory. However, when I try copying files from the backup of the home directory, I get an error:
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