Help! Backups not recognised when attempting full restore

I recently screwed up my Macbook while trying to mess about with partitions and the like, and I thought no problem simply reinstall and restore from time machine back ups.
Slight problem. No OS X install disc, only a leopard upgrade one.
So I used an old image cloned using superduper and copied that to Macintosh HD so now the main HD has a bootable image (btw I'm really not at all sure about the terminology here, it is the result of massive googling) as in it will turn on and work fine and dandy.
But this image is from a long time ago and is missing lots of important stuff. So I try and restore it from my time machine back ups using the upgrade disc - and it doesn't work.
Doesn't recognise anything as time machine back ups, it simply shows my external as an orange icon, not the green TM one, same on the desktop when I simply turn the computer on.
Anyone know a way around this problem? You'll have my undying gratitude.
Thanks in advance for any help you can give me!

Well it shows up, but when I select it there seems to be no back ups that it recognises.
But when I manually go into the drive the data is all there and correct :$ This is very annoying.
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Duane Morrison wrote:
Thanks for explaining.
The partitions I DIDN'T choose to backup only contained stuff that (I figured) was not part of the operating system (eg large sample libraries, video files etc).
Oh, ok, that's not what you posted before.
And since my last post the OSX Installer has been able to recognise the Time Machine backup on the USB drive - so I'm assuming it is complete...?
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