How to only restore only certain elements after reinstall

Hi guys
Quick question. My macbook is reeeeally tired, so I've decided to give it a complete reinstall of Snow Leopard. However, I am confused how I should proceed without loosing some vital things.
Here's the thing!
I have a complete timemachine backup of my machine but I do not wish to simply restore this entire image. I want a reinstall completely (to get rid of whatever is making my computer slow) and then just pull certain elements from timemachine to the newly installed and fresh OS.
I this possible? (1) reinstall (2) hook my timemachine drive to the computer (3) selected e.g. apps, musik, docs etc. to restore (i.e. restoring vital elements without getting the bugs back)
I have tried looking everywhere for this, so it would be for great help if anybody can answer!
thanks

That's much more complex that you may think, and is probably overkill anyway.
Reinstalling apps selectively can be done, but won't work well for complex ones -- if an app comes with it's own Installer, it almost certainly puts other files in other places, in addition to putting the app in your Applications folder. If you don't know what and where all those other files are, and restore them, too, the app probably won't work well, if at all.
It's usually much better (and safer) to address the problem(s) directly.
See Baltwo's post: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=11853228&#11853228

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