Why does my Time Capsule want to do COMPLETE backups every time?

I'm still new to this Time Capsule, only had it about a week, and i'm still trying to figure it out. I have an old LaCie Hd that i was using for my Time Machine backups before, with 2 partitions, for 2 different computers both running different OS's....1 Snow Leopard, and 1 Lion.
Now i just got this Time Capsule, and i am under the impression that i don't need to partition anything? I can't anyway, as it is a .sparseimage file. But i should be able to back up all my macs to the same Time Capsule HD. But why is it when i want to back up my Snow Leopard OS and/or Lion OS - that it wants to do a complete backup of all 400+ GB of stuff? I don't change any settings, i just let it do its thing, but when i look at it in the Time Machine/System Preferences it is gathering everything up and taking forever.
Why does it want to keep backing up my entie computer and not just what's new after the first initial backup? Thanks

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Now i just got this Time Capsule, and i am under the impression that i don't need to partition anything? I can't anyway, as it is a .sparseimage file. But i should be able to back up all my macs to the same Time Capsule HD.
Correct.  Time Machine will make a separate sparse bundle for each Mac.
Why does it want to keep backing up my entie computer and not just what's new after the first initial backup? 
The first backup of each Mac to the Time Capsule will be a full one (not just the changes since the last backup to the LaCie).  And that's pretty slow over WIFI, so it's a good idea to do the first one via Ethernet.
Are you saying that both Macs' initial, full backups to the Time Capsule were completed, but subsequent ones are full backups again?  If so, see #D7 in Time Machine - Troubleshooting.

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