Can I choose which Backup to recover, or ir it always the latest?

I recently installed iLife 08, but my iMac G5 doesn't meet iMovie's requirements (it needs 1.9 Ghz, I have 1.8Ghz), so I would like to go back to my previous iLife, which will be on TM Backups. However the latest Backups will have iLife 08, so I'd like to get a restore from a time before I installed iLife 08. Is this possible - can anyone help, please?

Thanks Barney - is it really that simple? I didn't think to do that. Will try that this evening. Appreciated.

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