Hard Drive Crashed/Need advice

Today, after installing OS X 10.4.6, the hard drive on my G5 desktop crashed and was not retrievable using Disk Utility. I spent a lot of time on the phone with Apple, and they recommended erasing and reinstalling -which I did.
Now I want to restore my User files. These back up everyday with Retrospect.
I would like advice on the best way to transfer these files back to my G5. Should I use a restore from the Retrospect server? Or should I transfer the files to another Mac's HD and put the G5 into target disk mode and move the files to it that way? Or is there a better way than these two?
Any advice would be greatly appreciated as I am sitting high and dry now, unwilling to do much with the G5 until I can work from within my own User ID.
Thanks,
Rich
G5 Dual 2.0 Mac OS X (10.4.5)
G5 Dual 2.0 Mac OS X (10.4.6)

I reformatted the crashed HD and created my user ID. Then I copied the contents of my user folder to my desktop from my retrospect backup. Then I dragged those files into the newly created user file, replacing the Apple defaults.

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