How do I enter a time capsule back up?

I really fouled this up.
I wanted to step back from 10.7 to 10.6.  So I copied "almost" everything from the HD to an external drive, then erased and re-formatted the HD and installed 10.6.
I have re-installed all of the additional software (almost) that I use and have lost very little - what I lost was due to "whoops" and is not fatal.
One thing I did not copy and really need to try and get back is my stickies database.  I had a lot of stuff in stickies.
I do know that there will be a complete copy of the stickies database in the last time capsule backup, but of course that was done in 10.7 and it is not recognizing this as the same machine since I am now on 10.6.
Is there a way to access the sparse.bundle, or open it, or somehow get access to that time capsule just so that I can get my stickies databse back??
Yes I know I'm an idiot.

Not quite because the unique identifiers for each are different. However, it should be possible to do what you want, but I don't remember what you need to do. So, visit Pondini's Time Machine FAQ for help with this. Should be a relevant FAQ on his site.

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