Time Machine not letting me retrieve an iPhoto file library

     I am trying to retrieve an iPhoto file from a week ago.
One week ago I attempted to upgrade to Lion, then realized that was not what I wanted to do and rebooted from my clone to restore to Snow Leopard.
When I opened iPhoto however, I realized that the iPhoto library was way further back than I had remembered.
I used my Time Machine backup to get my old iPhoto library back (not to try to merge, just to retreive the file) and I get the error message: "This operation can't be completed because you don't have permission to access "iPhoto Library."
I already repaired permissions on the volume.  What gives?

ds store wrote:
Does OS 10.7 _do_ something to the iPhoto file that makes it unreadable by 10.6? 
Yes.
No.
The only way to restore 10.6 is if 10.6 TM was never connected to the 10.7 comptuer, then c boot off 10.6 and erase the internal drive install 10.6 and restore 10.6 from 10.6 TM
No.  
You can restore selected items from a backup made under Lion to your Snow Leopard system.   (There are some data files, such as Mail, where the data layouts and/or folder structures are different, but if you have the same version of iPhoto, that's not an issue).  See Time Machine - Frequently Asked Question #15.
You can also revert to Snow Leopard by doing a full system restore of a backup made under Snow Leopard.  See FAQ #14. (You don't have to erase or reinstall Snow Leoaprd to do a full restore.)
But for the permissions issue, one of the workarounds in #E9 in Time Machine - Troubleshooting should work.

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