Can't access any Leopard backups after upgrading to Snow Leopard

The first time I tried to backup under Snow Leopard, it said I didn't have enough space on the hard drive. I tried to enter the time machine, but it wouldn't allow me to access any of the backups that I had made under Leopard. I ended up just erasing the drive and starting over, but I'm not happy about it. I may not want the old backups on my MBP, but I might someday want them on my G5, and now they're gone. Boo Apple!

This is your fault, not Apple's. If you had checked your Computer Name in Sharing preferences chances are it was not the same as that used for your previous backups. Changing the Computer Name would let you continue backing up to the same backup set and accessing the data on the backup. Or you could have used Migration Assistant to migrate certain items from any backup on a TM backup drive.
At the top of this forum are three User Contributed Tips on the use and care of Time Machine. In addition are these articles:
Mac 101- Using Time Machine in Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard;
Mac OS X 10.5 Help- Recovering items using Time Machine and Spotlight;
Mac OS X 10.5 Help- Restoring files backed up with Time Machine.
So it's hardly Apple's fault that you did not access all the available information that would have enabled you to migrate your files.

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