HARD DRIVE CRASH: So now what?

My hard drive crashed in my PowerBook G4.
Good thing is that I had everything backed up in Time Capsule. (I believe).
I just put in a new hard drive- how do I get time capsule to put everything back?
Thanks,
-Allan

I just recently went through your scenario,
I pulled a 120 gig hard drive from a powerbook. Did Time Machine first to external drive. Installed a 320 gig hard drive in powerbook. Re-booted powerbook using Leopard install disc. Selected English.
Went to Disk Utility and formatted the new hard drive. Done ok. Selected from DU "restore using TM backup." Only problem the new hard drive was not recognized at this point for the TM restore. So I re-started the Leopard install disc once more and all went well.

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