Clean install and selective restores from Time Machine?

Hi, all.
Just purchased a 13-inch non-Retina MBP last week. Swaped out the 500GB drive for a 1TB, upgraded to Mavericks and transfered all my data from a 2006-era white iMac running Leopard via Time Machine. I've had some connectivity issues (logins at app store failing, server verification errors in iTunes, and not being able launch the software that allows the folks at Apple to view my screen via chat) and after a few nights on the phone and in chat with Apple support, they've recommended booting in recovery since nothing else is working, wiping the hard drive, and performing a clean install of Mavericks. The assumption is that something from the migration is causing the issue.
I've created a fresh Time Machine backup on an external 1TB drive, and I'm mainly concerned with moving over the documents, Lightroom 4 library, iPhoto library, and iTunes library.Will I just be able to enter Time Machine and restore those or, failing that, manually drag and drop them into the user library? Are there any user permissions I need to be concerned about?
Thanks in advance!

Thanks, I figured as much. Another foolish question: should I be concerned about user permissions if I'm starting over? Can I transfer the users (there are only two, me and my wife) over from Time Machine? Trying to start as fresh as possible since no one can figure out what's causing the connectivity issues.

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