I can't restore my Macbook!

Ok, so I have my time machine backup in a separate hard drive and my computer just got out from maintenance brand new, with new hard drive and that means.... empty (not my files.. like a new computer). I put a 500Gb HD on it and what I did (because time machine just won't give me an option for restoring the computer from a backup) is to drag the backup folder "Macintosh HD" into the "Macintosh HD" inside my computer, but when it finishes transfering the 280gb of files I had in my backup, it doesn't show up anywhere!! It tells me that the space is taken so I only have 190gb left on my 500gb internal hard drive, but I can't find the files anywhere on my computer (I looked thoroughly). <<It asked me if I wanted to replace the Macintosh HD, keep the previous (new) or keep both, and I clicked on keep both>>
So what I decide to do next is to get the Mac OS X Software DVD that I have (the one that came with my computer) and I should've probably done this before... anyway, I tried to restore the whole thing and from my backup this time.. but oh.. wait.. another problem: when I insert the CD it will go in, make weird noises and eject it after a minute, not even show it up on my desktop! So now I can't restore it, I can't get that "free" space back and I can't access my "securely" backed up computer!!!
I have the last Macbook, got it a year and a half ago and it was working fine until now.
I also have some more files in my Backup hard drive in the root folder (not inside the backups folder) like movies.. I don't know if that has anything to do with it.

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