Erased disk - BIG problems with OSX and restoring from TM

Hi,
Please bare with me here - I've been trying to solve this problem across the last 3 days.
I was advised by a friend to do a fresh install of OSX after erasing my current in internal HDD (2009 Macbook Pro 13").
I 1st confirmed that time machine had a complete back-up on my external USB drive
I followed the instructions via the OSX install disk, erased the current drive and then completed the OSX re-install.
When the time came to migrate, I received a screen message stating that my time machine back-up contains a newer version of OSX and therefore could not be migrated.
I allowed the new OSX install to complete and then updated to the latest version of OSX.
I opened migration assistant and followed the instructions to restore my last time machine back-up. This took a while but seemed to work.
I rebooted and was only able to find the clean OSX install - I could not locate the restored files from time machine - not anywhere. However my HDD was now showing a free space of 140Gb (of a total 500) so something had been restored.
I spent many hrs looking and in the end went back to square one - erased HDD and reinstalled OSX.
This is the point I'm at now and I have no idea how to get my time machine back-up restored?????

Please bare with me here
What exactly are we going to bare!
I was advised by a friend to do a fresh install of OSX after erasing my current in internal HDD (2009 Macbook Pro 13").
Assuming you had a very good reason and you guys had tried everything else including an archive and install of course
I rebooted and was only able to find the clean OSX install - I could not locate the restored files from time machine - not anywhere.
Did you check for invisible folders in your users folder i.e "ls -a /Users/" ?
I spent many hrs looking and in the end went back to square one - erased HDD and reinstalled OSX.
Hmmm you could have asked here before square one but regardless check this forum out http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=1227&start=0. At the top you will find tips by Pondini which will tell you at the very least how to get your old system back. Also what you did I think probably worked as well and you just didn't check /Users/.name/
edit: you could also go from where you are now and manually bring your stuff over. Might be best option depending on how badly your original system was mucked up to cause you to do a wipe-install.
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