Tar not working under FC4 as it does with FC3

I can't figure out what is happening to my backups, apparently something in
tar has changed, but I can't find anything in the docs.
 
I execute the script below which executes a backup and utilizes a exclude
fille, however it seems that under FC4 it backs up everything and simply
ignores the exclude file.  This currently runs on 3 FC3 servers and an RH7.3
server.
 
Any help is appreciated!
 
 
Backup script:
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#!/bin/sh
 
DATE=`date +%m-%d-%Y`
SERVER=`hostname | perl -p -e 's/(.*?)\..*/$1/'`
LOCATION='/home/system/backup/'
 
BACKUP_LOC=${LOCATION}${SERVER}'/data/'
 
CONFIG_LOC=${LOCATION}
EXCLUDE='/ibin/conf/backup_exclude_list'
 
LOG=${SERVER}'-backup.log'
        nice -n 14 tar -czf ${BACKUP_LOC}/D-Backup-${DATE}.tar.gz /
--exclude-from ${EXCLUDE} -g ${CONFIG_LOC}/${LOG}
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Exclude file
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/home/system/backup
/home/*.com/www/stats
/home/*.net/www/stats
/home/*.org/www/stats
/home/*.cc/www/stats
/home/*.info/www/stats
/home/system/download
/home2
/var/log
/var/log/*.com
/var/log/*.net
/var/log/*.org
/var/log/*.cc
/var/log/*.info
/proc
/tmp
/lost+found
/dev
/bin
/dev
/lib
/media
/misc
/mnt
/initrd
/sbin
/srv
/sys
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