Contribute CS4 reinstall - import previous site settings

I have reinstalled Contribute CS4 Mac from DVD after a disk crash. I have a full time machine backup of the previous disk. How can I restore the previous Connection and Website settings? I am the administrator and want to be able to access all the previously configured group and editor settings.
I trying restoring ~/Library/Adobe/Contribute CS4 which appears to contain my old site settings but they don't show up in the new installation.
Thanks,
Robert

1) Quit Contribute
2) Restore "~/Library/Adobe/Contribute CS4"
2) Also restore "~/Library/Preferences/Adobe Contribute 5 Preferences".
Hope this solves your problem.

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