HELP: the nightmare has happened with Apple Backup 3.1.2

OK, I've got a situation here. Bought an external 1TB backup drive. Used Apple's Backup 3.1.2, which comes with the .mac account to backup my laptop twice a week. The first backup was a full one, followed by incremental backups. I've set it up to back up my WHOLE system drive.
So far so good. Yesterday, I backed up the system again. Finished successfully. Then I reinstalled my laptop, wiped the whole machine and put OSX10.4.11 back on. Reinstalled Backup 3.1.2 and wanted to restore my home folder using my latest backup. Double-click the file. Restore window opens, shows the system, all apps, library, users etc.
BUT, the users folder does not contain my old home folder anymore. AAAARRRGGGHHHKKKK! OK, tried not to panic, checked older backups. Same. Checked them all. Everything shows up. Except my home folder.
OK, thought I must have un-ticked my home folder by accident when setting up the backups. But I a am as sure as I can be that I did not do a mistake.
Also, the file size of the backup packages (210GB) is the same size as my previous system (60GB), incl my home folder (ca. 150GB)....
If I had backed up everything except my home folder, the back up file should be a lot smaller!
So, I actually have hope that my precious home folder is actually still in there somewhere. But how do I access the files?
Has anyone had similar problems? Does anyone know what to do???
Thanks you sooooo much for you help!
Jan
17" MacBookPro 2.16GHz Intel Core Duo, 2GB 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM, 250GB internal, I TB external firewire drive. OS X 10.4.11

And if you ever get out of this mess, I'd consider one of these...
Get carbon copy cloner to make an exact copy of your old HD to the New one...
http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html
SuperDuper...
http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/
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