Had to reformat my imac but now can't access time capsule to get my old fil

I had to reformat my imac, running snow leopard. Got it reinstalled. I'm reading my time capsule volume but it has problems connecting to allow me to restore my old settings files, (photos, music etc)
I'm not sure if I'm tackling this correctly. I'm using Migration Assistant, should I be going through Time Machine? I tried both but am having issues. My airport setting are fine. Any ideas anyone?

Thanks for the feedback and the link to the help page.
I had to reformat because my imac was not responding at all. It would open but super slow. In disc utilities I tried reparing disc multiple times, kept getting a message saying the disc was corrupted something about sibling error???, back up all your files, erase and restore.
I've been running snow leopard and have had a time capsule for a while so I erased and spent the next two days trying to reinstall OSX unsuccessfully. Called the apple tech support, tried their idea of reinstalling snow leopard after an erase. It would not install.
Took my computer into the genius bar and they were able to reinstall immediately. We tried a direct ethernet connect to my time capsule at the genius bar but it would not work. It didn't see any time machine volume. The time capsule was flahing yellow. When I hook it to my router it is solid green, gives me a "connecting message" but doesn't open.
anyway so now I bring the imac back home and it won't connect to time machine. Will try from my disc to restore from time machine and will hook up with ethernet again, see if it works.
I feel I'm missing a step when I connect direct with the ethernet but have a flashign yellow light on time capsule. Any ideas on that.
thanks again

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