Can't restore from apple Back up, after Leopard disaster

Before I installed Leopard, I made a "new" back up on an external fire wire lacie drive.
Here is where I went wrong, the 1st "Full Back Up' I did last spring was around 55GB, I had it set up for a weekly Back Up and the average "incremental" was around 4-6 GB, every few months,it would say the weekly back Up failed because of lack of space on the external drive. I would then delete the back up, open Apple back Up, and click on the window "home folder" "back Up" and it would make a new 55GB back up, and add around 4-6GB each week.
These are the directions I thought I followed correctly
"You can use Backup to remove files from the Backup folder on your iDisk. You might want to clear the contents of the folder so that you can create a completely new backup, or if you are backing up a new computer for the first time. (After you clear the contents of your Backup folder, you will no longer have a backup copy on your iDisk, so remember to perform another backup soon.)"
Before I up graded to Leopard, I thought it would be better to have one 'big" back up , rather than the 55GB and several smaller 4-6GB, so I deleted, went to Back Up, clicked on "Home Folder" back up and made a new 55GB back up.
I tried to do an "Archive " install and it froze up, (went perfect on our macBook) Apple care walked me thru and had me do a "clean and install", the whole time I was happy and glad I had a back up of my home folder.
When I went to restore, it would scan 25,000 plus files, then "Restore Failed"
When I looked at back up help,(under restore problems" I see where I went wrong
To force a full backup:
Select the plan (in the Backup window or the plan window).
Choose Plan > Full Backup.
I never new I had to "Force a Full back Up" so what I had been doing for 6 months was just doing incremental back ups, even if I had deleted the complete back up and all the incremental, and followed the window prompt to back Up. I am a little miffed, the only place I found where it talks about the need to "Force a Full Back Up' is in the help section, when you can't do a restore.
Any way, is there any way to retrieve the 55GB of data, that I thought I had backed up??

HotinPlaya wrote:
Any way, is there any way to retrieve the 55GB of data, that I thought I had backed up??
You might try any of the several data retrieval or disk repair utilities out there. Since your backup is from Tiger, they all should work but you should perform the operation from a Tiger OS, not Leopard.
Good Luck =

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