Wow - three days of spinning clock!

OK, I took the advice of experts on this board and kept my Mac on all night and sure enough, at some point, it stopped with the "Preparing Backup..." nonsense and actually backed up my drive!
But that was three days ago, almost four now, and now I cannot get TC to move beyond preparing the backup. Here's the nitty gritty from the Prefs panel:
Available: 19.8 GB of 463.8 GB
Oldest backup: August 17, 2009 +(but I've had it a year)+
Latest backup: October 11, 2009
Backing up: +(barber pole)+ Preparing ...
This TC serves my MacBook with a replacement 180GB HD and my other MacBook with the factory 80GB drive. Yep, a big crowd in a small house ... but really, should a backup take this long??
And if not, what's my next move?? I use SuperDuper to make biweekly offsite backups too, so I could start over with TC.

open airport utility. select your TC and click +manual setup+. click on the disks icon above and a window opens where you will see your TC and the option to erase it.
you should also check this user FAQ http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1964018

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