How to access a TM back up of an HD that was damaged and replaced

Hi,
My HD gave up the ghost after running very slowly for a while on my MacBook Pro 17" 2006 model using OSX Leopard.
I bought a new MacBook Air running OSX Lion but did not recover from the Time Machine on Airport Extreme as a friend told me that files there could have been corrupted as well.
Anyway, I replaced the HD on the old machine but again decided to do a clean instal in OSX Leopard. Using a caddy I selectively pulled in all my files and documents including my iPhoto Library. I set the TM on this new HD which did not use the old sparsebundle. So this is now a complete new backup.
However, I need to recover a few old photos which somehow disappeared from the new iPhoto library. I am sure that these are still on the old TM back up file. But I cannot get to it through the TM application.
Is there anyway I can get access to previous backups using either Leopard or Lion?
I have consulted Pandini (I think that is what it is called) but they do not seem to have an answer to my specific problem.
Many thanks
Tariq

Thanks LaPastenague. The two links were a great help. I finally managed to get access to the backup.
It was actually some photos I wanted and particularly the descriptions that I had laboriously typed in that I wanted to recover. This was all done on iPhoto 8. Although I was able to recover teh individual photos using OSX Leopard the descriptions did not show up at all nor were these recovered sadly.
Luckily the original photo which is a group photo, the type you do of teh whoel class when you finish your year at school, is still accessible but is a few thousand miles away. I will need to get someone to send me all the names on these photos.
Thanks for your help. At least, now I know how to get to old TM backups.
Regards
Tariq

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