Can't retrieve time machine back-up!

Hope someone can help me on this one.
I recently upgraded from Tiger to leopard. After two months of major issues (computer freezing up, software incompatible, etc) I decided to go back to Tiger. I used time machine to back up everything on an external hard drive. According to the drive, everything was captured - all 41g of what was on my main drive.
So now I've reinstalled my Tiger, open up the backup files from my external hard drive, to find they are all aliases.
Does anyone know how I can retrieve the content?
Thanks so much for your help!

it looks like Tiger can't handle hard links used by TM to make backups in leopard. you should have used a conventional backup before going back to Tiger. the only thing I can recommend is to do a full system restore from TM using leopard install DVD onto another external drive. If you don't have one. do a full system restore onto the internal and then back it up using a different backup solution than Time Machine. make a bootable clone using Superduper or CCCloner. Tiger will be able to read those.
Better yet, square your problems with leopard. try an archive and install of leopard over the restored system or an erase and install with manual migration from your TM backup. that tends to cure most problems you may have had after upgrading from tiger to leopard directly.

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