How do I restore a few items saved in Time Machine on a different computer?

After upgrading my G5 Mac to Leopard, and using an external Firewire drive as the Time Machine backup, both of my hard drives crashed on the G5. To make a long story short, I ended up with a new iMac. Luckily, all my data WAS saved on the Time Machine (yeah!!!).
I used the Migration Assistant to copy the applications, user accounts, and network settings to the iMac. And while I don't have the space to move ALL the data from my backups to my new Mac, there are some things I need to move that I haven't been able to find. These are:
• Old E-mail stored on my hard drive (not the server), most recently in Apple's Mail program (previously in Entourage).(Migration Assistant didn't copy the old mail.)
• E-mail addresses saved in Entourage (these didn't get moved to the Address Book application).
• Firefox Bookmarks
Thanks for your help!

I'm happy to report that I found all my "missing" data...turns out it was just under a different user!

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