Backups gone after restore?

I recently installed a bigger hard drive in my MacBook Pro. After installing, I ran the restore of my latest back in Time Machine on my new drive. Worked like charm.
However, I have read other posts that say after doing this and running time machine on the new drive, it will forget all past backups and start from scratch. I don't want to lose my old backups. What is the best way to prevent that from happening?

Here is a thought. When you did the restore, what Mac OS version did you restore. Your states only say 10.5. But might your Mac have been restored to 10.5.4 or earlier with your restore?
I have found in my own testing, that since the 10.5.5 update, "Archive & Installs", "Erase & Installs", and "Restore System From Backup..." no longer trigger a new full backup. That is, they continue to use the same backup set as before. (Note though, you will likely see a very large incremental backup, but not necessarily a new Full Backup set.) See my comments here:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1771493&tstart=0
If, however, you restored to a Mac OS version previous to 10.5.5, and then allowed Time Machine to perform a backup, then a new Full Backup would be preformed. Likely, you might be able to avoid this if you do the restore (prevent Time Machine from backing up), update to 10.5.5, then allow Time Machine to backup.
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Delmonte3161 wrote:
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Event store UUIDs don't match for volume: Macintosh HD
Node requires deep traversal:/ reason:kFSEDBEventFlagMustScanSubDirs|
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No expired backups exist - deleting oldest backups to make room
Error: backup disk is full - all 0 possible backups were removed, but space is still needed.
Backup Failed: unable to free 506.55 GB needed space
Backup failed with error: Not enough available disk space on the target volume.
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