Using Time Capsule, but my MBP HD seems to be getting fuller

Hello: I have a 1TB Time Capsule which U have been using to back up my HD for about a week or so. Not long ago I had 15GB of free space on my MBP's HD, now I have zero. I did not download 15GB of date in that week. Any ideas what is going on? How do I find that 15GB of data and delete it? Was the date being backed up to my internal HD instead of my Time Capsule?
Thanks in advance

Additional info: I see that there is something on my HD named Back of James' MacBook Pro, and in it are all my backups. Is this what is filling my HD? Why are these here and not on the Time Capsule? The icon for this is an external drive.

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Message was edited by: Bob Timmons

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*Hard Reset*
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[http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1300]
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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1178
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