How do I use backup DVD to restore

Hi and thank you ahead of time for any help you may provide. I have a Satellite C655-S5082 laptop. I have basic computer knowledge which I have discovered ranks in the "not much" category unless it is spelled out relatively simply. I was trying to uninstall the Zynga toolbar and somehow deleted most of my downloaded programs including my email! None of the shortcuts worked and most of the program was gone. (Windows Live Essentials, Adobe, Java, Microsoft Office Starter and I am sure others that I haven't found yet) Some are an easy fix as I can just download again. Email was/is more of a problem. I downloaded the program again and recovered some of my emails with Recuva. (I miss Outlook Express) I remembered that I have these backup DVD's that might put things back where they should be! Not the Recovery ones, I don't want to wipe everything out and start over. I get started with the Restore, but then am unsure what to do and nothing I can find really explains it step by step. I get to where it tells me to "Browse or search your backup for files and folders to restore" and am unsure what steps to take next. It doesn't tell me. I think I just want to restore everything to where it was. Can you help please and will it work? System Recovery did not work, and in my search for making it work, I followed a suggestion to turn it off and on again and lost previous restore points. (Please don't yell too loudly) Thanks again!
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Will I be able to use the daily backup discs at all afterward?
Backups of files should be available. But make new copies of important files anyway.
You wouldn't want to restore from image backups.
-Jerry

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