Changed HD on Macbook Pro now can't recover backup from Time Machine

Hi,
My HD gave up the ghost after running very slowly for a while on my MacBook Pro 17" 2006 model using OSX Leopard.
I bought a new MacBook Air running OSX Lion but did not recover from the Time Machine on Airport Extreme as a friend told me that files there could have been corrupted as well.
Anyway, I replaced the HD on the old machine but again decided to do a clean instal in OSX Leopard. Using a caddy I selectively pulled in all my files and documents including my iPhoto Library. I set the TM on this new HD which did not use the old sparsebundle. So this is now a complete new backup.
However, I need to recover a few old photos which somehow disappeared from the new iPhoto library. I am sure that these are still on the old TM back up file. But I cannot get to it through the TM application.
Is there anyway I can get access to previous backups using either Leopard or Lion?
I have consulted Pandini (I think that is what it is called) but they do not seem to have an answer to my specific problem.
Many thanks
Tariq

you want a different forum though anyone here can likely walk through this.
MacBook Pro
https://discussions.apple.com/community/notebooks/macbook_pro 
https://discussions.apple.com/community/mac_os?view=discussions
http://www.apple.com/support/macbookpro
And as for backups, one backup set and one method are not enough and when you use the same drive that was used for an older OS that changes the set.
You show 10.7.4 so 10.7.5 now? there was a supplemental update 1.0 to deal with bug in TimeMachine also.
There is forum area for TimeMachine in OS X community.
I like "Back in Time" from same people that have TriBackup ($60) and recommend using Carbon Copy Cloner (now $39). 
Pandini is drive enclosure?

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