Can't copy iPhoto from my backup disk

I had to restore a lot of apps from my external backup drive yesterday. Most of them went OK, but, among others, iPhoto and iWeb wouldn't copy over to my iMac from the external drive. And, as luck would have it, I can't find my original iLife disks
Is there no way to copy these from my backup?
Any help appreciated!

Terrence, thanks for the response. I used SuperDuper for the backup. I didn't try to restore from SD after erasing my hard drive because I'd have brought the problems over from the backup that caused me to reinstall the OS in the first place. So I dragged what I wanted from the backup over to the newly initialized and "systemized" internal hard drive.
But what I decided to do was to get iLife 09. I've been wanting to do it for a time now and this seemed like the ideal time to do it, given the problems.
Again, thanks for taking the time to respond. I appreciate it.

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