Help! Time Machine Restore Problem From Leopard Server

Hi All,
I just did something dumb with my iMac running 10.6.4 and need to restore all data from my time machine backup.
I have a mac mini running Mac OS X Server 10.5.8 which has a time machine volume on an external USB drive.
I have reinstalled 10.6.4 on the iMac and tried running Migration Assistant to transfer information from a Time Machine backup. I am able to log in to the Time Machine volume successfully but I immediately get an error:
"The Connection Failed"
I have also tried booting into and restoring from the Snow Leopard DVD and get the same results.
I am reluctant to attempt to configure Time Machine for fear that it'll somehow overwrite the backup I have. I do not want to mess with the permissions on the TM backup in order to clone the backup in advance of configuring TM before I get some advice.
Please help! Lost a lot of sleep last night and my wife is very upset.
Below are some console log errors that indicate something is wrong, but google does not turn up anything concrete on the keywords:
11/4/10 7:54:23 AM [0x0-0x14014].com.apple.MigrateAssistant[182] objc[182]: Class MigrationAssistantPane is implemented in both /Applications/Utilities/Migration Assistant.app/Contents/MacOS/Migration Assistant and /Applications/Utilities/Migration Assistant.app/Contents/Resources/MigrationAssistantUI.bundle/Contents/MacOS/Mig rationAssistantUI. One of the two will be used. Which one is undefined.
11/4/10 7:54:23 AM [0x0-0x14014].com.apple.MigrateAssistant[182] objc[182]: Class Process is implemented in both /Applications/Utilities/Migration Assistant.app/Contents/MacOS/Migration Assistant and /Applications/Utilities/Migration Assistant.app/Contents/Resources/MigrationAssistantUI.bundle/Contents/MacOS/Mig rationAssistantUI. One of the two will be used. Which one is undefined.
11/4/10 7:54:27 AM Migration Assistant[182] Couldn't get a connection to the migrateTool after 1 attempt.
11/4/10 7:54:32 AM Migration Assistant[182] (SYS) We've received count = 2 systems
11/4/10 7:54:32 AM Migration Assistant[182] + (SYS) Adding SMSystem : file://localhost/Volumes/Mac%20OS%20X%20Install%20DVD/
11/4/10 7:54:36 AM Migration Assistant[182] (SYS) We've received count = 3 systems
11/4/10 7:54:36 AM Migration Assistant[182] = (SYS) Updating SMSystem : afp://server.local./Time%20Machine
11/4/10 7:54:36 AM Migration Assistant[182] = (SYS) Updating SMSystem : file://localhost/Volumes/Mac%20OS%20X%20Install%20DVD/
11/4/10 7:54:45 AM com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[85] (com.apple.Kerberos.renew.plist) Throttling respawn: Will start in 373 seconds
11/4/10 7:57:21 AM Migration Assistant[182] (SYS) We've received count = 3 systems
11/4/10 7:57:21 AM Migration Assistant[182] = (SYS) Updating SMSystem : afp://server.local./Time%20Machine
11/4/10 7:57:21 AM Migration Assistant[182] = (SYS) Updating SMSystem : file://localhost/Volumes/Mac%20OS%20X%20Install%20DVD/
11/4/10 8:00:58 AM com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[85] (com.apple.Kerberos.renew.plist[214]) Exited with exit code: 1

I do have an extra external drive that I can copy this file to, by assigning permissions, but am not sure about how TM hides and secures the files needed. I'm worried about messing up the only copy I have of this data.
Don't change anything in the backups. Ever.
Your best bet may be to do a full system restore of the desired backup from the server to the USB drive; then you should be able to boot the iMac from that.
But if you want to copy the backups, you'll have to be logged-on to the server with an account that has permission to copy the sparse bundle.
If you copy just the desired backup, instead of the whole sparse bundle, it won't be recognized as a Time Machine backup, but might work with either +Setup Assistant+ or +Migration Assistant.+

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Product Revision Level:
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