How to restore after disk replacement?

l just had my iMac hard disk replaced due a recall.  Before taking it in I made a disk image with disk Utility and securely erased the disk.  I also have Time Machine back-ups going back several months.  On getting the machine back, since it contains sensitive data securely erased the new hard disk and started up with the Snow Leopard boot disk.  When I tried to scan the disk for reinstall I get an error "Unable to scan 'image name' (internal error)".  I tried several times with the same result.  I then tried to restore from Time Machine and got a message that No Mac OS X backups were found."
I installed Snow Leopard and again tried both approaches with the same result.  I can see to Time Machine backups on the disk but when I restore it simply copies the files into "/Volumes.  Anyone have ideas on how to restore the system?

Rodocki wrote:
The disk image did not.  Not sure what's wrong with the disk image burn and restore process but it is clearly not dependable.
Unless you tested and restored it after making it, it's a poor choice, since it requires three volumes: the boot volume, source volume, and a destination volume. A bootable backup/clone made with Carbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper! is a much better choice. BTW, it's also significantly faster to restore one of these than it is to restore a disk image.

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