Command & R boot not working?

Ok so last week I bought and installed a new hard drive for my computer. I have a Macbook Pro from mid-2009 that had a 250GB Hard Drive. I replaced that with a 1TB Hard drive. After putting in tht 1 TB drive I turned on the computer and proceeded to use Time Machine to get all of my files, applications, etc back. I found out that my Time Machine was not backing up correctly and my newest Back up was from 10 months ago. I put the old 250 GB Hard Drive back in my computer, erased my time machine and created a new back up with everything up to date. Then I put the 1 TB back in my laptop and I have been trying to use Command + R to get to the disk utitlity so I can add my new up to date files, applications, etc but my Mac Book seems to be not recognizing Command + R and takes me straight to my desktop and everything looks like it did 10 months ago. What am I doing wrong?

So you're saying thatthe Mac is booting but to your normal startup? If so (from Apple's recovery tech page)
Note: If you see a login window or your own desktop and icons, it is possible that you didn't hold Command-R early enough. Restart and try again.
Message was edited by: Frank Caggiano -Note if you have a wireless keyboard the timing of the key presses can be trick to get.
Also
After putting in tht 1 TB drive I turned on the computer and proceeded to use Time Machine
how did you boot the system at this point? was it off the 1TB or off the TM backup.

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