Can I restore a time machine osx lion backup using snow leopard install DVD?

Hi.
I've been using osx lion but my hard drive died. Fortunately I have been making time machine backups. Since I downloaded lion from the app store I only have the snow leopard install disks.
I know there is an option to restore from a time machine backup using the snow leopard disk, but since the time machine backup is of a later operating system (lion) will that time machine restore work?
If it won't, can you recommend how to restore from my time machine backup?
Thanks.

Once the replacement hard drive is installed, boot from your original Snow Leopard Installation Disk. From there format the harddrive and install Snow Leopard and then download and install its Updates. Next, navigate to the Mac App Store and login using the Exact same Apple User ID that you did the first time you downloaded Lion. You will now be able to download and install the Lion OS for Free. Download and install the Lion Updates. Lastly, using Migration Assistant, migrate your Apps and Data from the Time Machine external hard drive to your internal Lion harddrive. This method should give you a very stable version of Lion on your internal harddrive complete with all your previous settings, Apps and Data.
Hope this helps

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I was unhappy with Snow Leopard dragging. I wanted a clean install. I did not have the original snow leopard installation for my computer, so I got a different snow leopard DVD. This has apparently caused problems with time machine.
The clean install in complete. I am now ready to migrate my Time Machine backup onto my iMac24". However, Time Machine is not recognized--at least not in the way I want.
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I suspect time machine is "linked" to the prior snow leopard operating system, rather than to the computer ID. Obviously, this is a bit of a mistake on my part. However, I'm already into the breech and I've got no choice but to go forward.
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Retail disk? Yes, it was the snow leopard CD.
I used a single license snow snow leopard CD install the first time around, when snow leopard was first released. At at that time I "upgraded" my system from leopard.
This time, I used a different physical disk with snow leopard with a family license. This time I did a "clean" install in which I first erased my hard drive using disk utilities.
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Time Machine will not backup after Snow Leopard.

Pertinent information:
Macbook Pro pre-aluminum body
Time Machine backing up over network to a ppc mini with 500 gb external drive.
This worked fine with Leopard for over a year. I installed Snow Leopard last week and this is the first time I got a chance to try a Time Machine backup. Doesn't see to want to backup no matter what I do.
I tried:
- Renaming the sparsebundle
- Disconnecting/reconnecting the external drive.
- Re-selecting disk in Time Machine config and nothing works.
- Even ran Verify Disk and Repair Disk on the external drive. Found a header error, but Disk Utility said it was minor and fixed it.
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09/12/2009 - 7:01PM Sep 12 2009 7:01:31 PM com.apple.backupd[5688] Starting standard backup
09/12/2009 - 7:01PM Sep 12 2009 7:01:31 PM com.apple.backupd[5688] Attempting to mount network destination using URL: afp://[email protected]/Backup
09/12/2009 - 7:01PM Sep 12 2009 7:01:31 PM com.apple.backupd[5688] Mounted network destination using URL: afp://[email protected]/Backup
09/12/2009 - 7:01PM Sep 12 2009 7:01:31 PM com.apple.backupd[5688] Warning: Destination /Volumes/Backup does not support TM Lock Stealing
09/12/2009 - 7:01PM Sep 12 2009 7:01:31 PM com.apple.backupd[5688] Warning: Destination /Volumes/Backup does not support Server Reply Cache
09/12/2009 - 7:01PM Sep 12 2009 7:01:33 PM com.apple.backupd[5688] Disk image /Volumes/Backup/mbphome_001ec2038641.sparsebundle mounted at: /Volumes/Backup of mbphome
09/12/2009 - 7:01PM Sep 12 2009 7:01:34 PM com.apple.backupd[5688] Backing up to: /Volumes/Backup of mbphome/Backups.backupdb
09/12/2009 - 7:01PM Sep 12 2009 7:01:36 PM com.apple.backupd[5688] Event store UUIDs don't match for volume: Macintosh HD
09/12/2009 - 7:01PM Sep 12 2009 7:01:38 PM com.apple.backupd[5688] Node requires deep traversal:/ reason:must scan subdirs|new event db|
09/12/2009 - 7:01PM Sep 12 2009 7:01:47 PM com.apple.backupd[5688] Stopping backupd to allow ejection of backup destination disk!
09/12/2009 - 7:01PM Sep 12 2009 7:01:47 PM com.apple.backupd[5688] Backup canceled.
09/12/2009 - 7:01PM Sep 12 2009 7:01:47 PM com.apple.backupd[5688] Failed to eject volume (null) (FSVolumeRefNum: -138; status: -36; dissenting pid: -1)
09/12/2009 - 7:01PM Sep 12 2009 7:01:48 PM com.apple.backupd[5688] Ejected Time Machine network volume.
Notice the:
Destination /Volumes/Backup does not support TM Lock Stealing
and:
Destination /Volumes/Backup does not support Server Reply Cache
Does anybody know what that means?
I also see this maybe every third time I try a manual backup. There are many more lines, I'll post a few for you to get the gist:
09/12/2009 - 6:49PM Sep 12 2009 6:49:36 PM com.apple.backupd[5560] Error: (6) getxattr for key:com.apple.backupd.SnapshotState path:/Volumes/Backup of mbphome/Backups.backupdb/mbphome/2009-08-16-173353
09/12/2009 - 6:49PM Sep 12 2009 6:49:36 PM com.apple.backupd[5560] Error: (6) getxattr for key:com.apple.backupd.SnapshotState path:/Volumes/Backup of mbphome/Backups.backupdb/mbphome/2009-08-20-192750
09/12/2009 - 6:49PM Sep 12 2009 6:49:36 PM com.apple.backupd[5560] Error: (6) getxattr for key:com.apple.backupd.SnapshotState path:/Volumes/Backup of mbphome/Backups.backupdb/mbphome/2009-08-27-220252
09/12/2009 - 6:49PM Sep 12 2009 6:49:36 PM com.apple.backupd[5560] Error: (6) getxattr for key:com.apple.backupd.SnapshotState path:/Volumes/Backup of mbphome/Backups.backupdb/mbphome/2009-09-09-013744
Can't really find any info on any of these errors. I search through discussions and it doesn't seem that anybody is having the same problems as I'm having, seems they are having different problems.
Thanks in advance for any kind of information you can provide on this problem.

Unfortunately a "full reset" didn't do it. The log looks almost exactly the same...
09/12/2009 - 11:26PM Sep 12 2009 11:26:47 PM com.apple.backupd[1141] Starting standard backup
09/12/2009 - 11:26PM Sep 12 2009 11:26:47 PM com.apple.backupd[1141] Attempting to mount network destination using URL: afp://[email protected]/Backup
09/12/2009 - 11:26PM Sep 12 2009 11:26:48 PM com.apple.backupd[1141] Mounted network destination using URL: afp://[email protected]/Backup
09/12/2009 - 11:26PM Sep 12 2009 11:26:48 PM com.apple.backupd[1141] Warning: Destination /Volumes/Backup-1 does not support TM Lock Stealing
09/12/2009 - 11:26PM Sep 12 2009 11:26:48 PM com.apple.backupd[1141] Warning: Destination /Volumes/Backup-1 does not support Server Reply Cache
09/12/2009 - 11:26PM Sep 12 2009 11:26:50 PM com.apple.backupd[1141] Disk image /Volumes/Backup-1/mbphome_001ec2038641.sparsebundle mounted at: /Volumes/Backup of mbphome
09/12/2009 - 11:26PM Sep 12 2009 11:26:50 PM com.apple.backupd[1141] Backing up to: /Volumes/Backup of mbphome/Backups.backupdb
09/12/2009 - 11:26PM Sep 12 2009 11:26:52 PM com.apple.backupd[1141] Event store UUIDs don't match for volume: Macintosh HD
09/12/2009 - 11:26PM Sep 12 2009 11:26:54 PM com.apple.backupd[1141] Stopping backupd to allow ejection of backup destination disk!
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09/12/2009 - 11:26PM Sep 12 2009 11:26:54 PM com.apple.backupd[1141] Backup canceled.
09/12/2009 - 11:26PM Sep 12 2009 11:26:55 PM com.apple.backupd[1141] Ejected Time Machine disk image.
09/12/2009 - 11:26PM Sep 12 2009 11:26:55 PM com.apple.backupd[1141] Ejected Time Machine network volume.
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