How do I archive only the last Time Machine backup?

Hi everyone
So i've done a "clean reinstall" of Lion and restored some of my files manually from TM backup located on an external hardrive by dragging them over via Finder. Now I want to delete all old TM backups on my ext hardrive and only save the last backup (the one I did before the Lion reinstall).
If I save the latest TM backup folder (named ~/Backups.backupdb/~/2012-04-11-233905) and delete all the older ones – would that save my entire last backup? Or does that folder contain aliases to other files in previous backup folders? i.e. does the last created Time Machine backup folder contain all files from the last backup?
Please help.

Linc, you don't seem to understand my problem – i want to start my TM backups from scratch from my "new" computer and archive the last backup I did on my "old" one. I don't need all the other backupped versions from my "old" computer – just the last backup which I want to archive.
My question is still:
Is there a way to archive my entire last backup (and delete all the previous ones)?

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