OS 10.8.2 - Click on Enter Time Machine - nothing happens

Not sure if recent history matters, but including it. Last week I had a problem with my display. Took it in to Apple and had it repaired - new logic board installed. Before taking it in, I decided to back up onto iCloud, which I had never used before. I also have Time Machine back-ups on a WD Passport external drive, but I am always worried something could happen to it.
After my 6 year old MacBook Pro came back, I found that the calendar was stuck trying to access the server. I wasn't able to quit Calendar or even Force Quit it - I would have to shut my computer down to make it stop. If I opened it, it resumed trying to access the server for ever. A couple of days later I disengaged from iCloud to solve this problem. It warned me that I would lose my data. I wasn't worried because I also had recent Time Machine backups on the external drive.
Now I would like to reinstall the data I lost using the back ups on the external drive. But when I click on the Time Machine icon in the top menu bar and click on Enter Time Machine, nothing happens. I tried opening it from Finder. No go.
Any suggestions? Or should I head back over to the Apple Store this weekend for help?
Thanks!

I have muddled through this and now have my calendar info back. After posting the question I started closing windows and found that my external drive was no longer connected, though I hadn't intentionally disconnected it. I restarted my system, reconnected my external drive, and then was able to enter Time Machine.
I didn't find my calendar data file.
I decided to try to recover the data from my iPod, but the sync didn't restore the information onto my MacBook.
I figured since I was facing a trip to the Apple store anyway, why not reconnect to iCloud and see what happened. This time it entered "connecting to server" and within two minutes it had connected and I had my appointments and birthdays restored.
Don't know why I had the issue in the first place, but will keep my fingers crossed for the future.

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Source:
Apple.com > Support > Discussions > Mac OS X v10.5 Leopard > Time Machine
http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=1227
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=7538067&#7538067
* http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=7259067&#7259067
* http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=7317674&#7317674
* http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1222415&tstart=105

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Its very strange given that I can successfully back up but not restore, as described in my original post.
One thing I neglected to mention was the fact I had set up my Time Machine backup to use 'sparsebundles'. This allows me to have the external drive plugged into my Airport Extreme and use much like Time Capsule.
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