Can I use .mac Backup to restore to Leopard?

Before my iMac failed, I had kept the complete Home folder backed up on an external HDD using .mac Backup 3.x (Tiger 10.4.11 and iLife 2006) Is it possible to restore the backed up copy to a new installation of Leopard?

ilduro wrote:
Before my iMac failed, I had kept the complete Home folder backed up on an external HDD using .mac Backup 3.x (Tiger 10.4.11 and iLife 2006) Is it possible to restore the backed up copy to a new installation of Leopard?
It it a Tiger backup? If so, you might be able to migrate from it, but you cannot simply use is as a replacement for a Leopard home directory.

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