How do I restore my settings in Address Book, iPhoto, iCal etc?

Hi,
I've just reinstalled Leopard on my MacBook and backed up using Time Machine to my external Lacie HD before I did this.
I want to restore my settings in Address Book, iPhoto, iCal etc. I have tried using Migration Assistant to restore my settings but it stopped saying "1 minute left" and after 24 hours was still saying the same thing.
I open up Address Book, iPhoto, iCal etc. but my original address details, photos etc. aren't there. Am I supposed to use Migration Assistant to restore Applications?
Is there a way around this?
Thanks in advance,
Phil

i forgot to mention that you should also try running the "repair permissions" from "disk utility" in the applications/utility directory whenever you copy back directories or files that you didn't directly create but that may have been created by a program. that is because the programs that create the directories/files in the first place sometimes will give the files a different set of permission that what the files will get when you copy them. so after you copy files back from another locations some files may not end up with the correct permissions when copied with the finder.

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