How to transfer a single Application from an old Time Machine backup

Hi
My old G5 unexpectedly died so i picked up a new iMac. When I set it up I used migration assistant to transfer everything but was told by a Genius not to "check" applications as I would need to re-install any apps that used a key anyway and there may be issues with snow leopard.
Turns out the new machine didn't have Snow Leopard after all and the one key application that I forgot to account for was my Palm Desktop. This of course has all of my addresses etc. and was far more up to date then the handheld which I haven't used in a couple years.
Is there any way to selectively retrieve this application from the Time machine backup for my old G5? I would even be happy if I could just get the data but I have no idea where to even look for it.
Thoughts?
Thanks to any caring sole who thinks they can help
SDK

This is what I would do, if you absolutely had to run the old Palm Desktop app on your new iMac.
The last version of Palm Desktop appears to still be available from palm.com
http://kb.palm.com/wps/portal/kb/common/article/33219_en.html
Note: This is probably an old PowerPC application, so your Intel iMac will be using Rosetta to run it. That is fine, but a window letting you know may pop up if it is the first PowerPC app you have run.
Hopefully, the installer and application will work properly on a new Mac with Leopard or Snow Leopard.
When it sets up the new user, it should create a folder in your user home folder somewhere. I do not know where this will be, but I would look in places like
<user home folder>/Library/
<user home folder>/Library/Application Support/
<user home folder>/Documents/
for a folder with Palm in the name.
If you can find that folder, note where it is located. Connect the Time Machine backup drive from the G5. In Finder, go into the backup folder to the latest date/time folder. You should be able to navigate to that same location and find that same +Palm data+ folder. First, just copy it over to the iMac's Desktop. Once you have it on the iMac, the idea here (with Palm Desktop NOT running) is to replace the new folder it created with the one from the old iMac. When you run Palm Desktop, hopefully, it will use your old data from the iMac G5.
I have not done this myself for Palm Desktop, but this technique works in other similar situations.

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