Issue with mailbox in Time Machine

Hello,
I did a back up with my Time Machine before replacing my HDD with a NEW HDD.
I want to recover all data in Time machine to my New HDD but it's not working. Time machine is not detected in boot option but shows up on desktop. When i enter Time Machine, The back ups from the New HDD allows system restore but the old HDD back up will not allow me to restore my system with it. I have the full back of the old HDD. I have seen errors Saying that is not the original version and unable to locate the original.
At the end, i did a manual restore, But i am having problem with my mailboxs. My old emails which is over 3000 are missing in my inbox. I am receiving new mails with no problems. I really want to have my old emails back to my inbox ....is important to me. I used POP configuration in entourage.
Please, can someone help me with a Step by Step guide to get my emails back? Or if possible install my Old HDD backup from Time machine.
Thanks in Advance.
NB: I have little experience with MAC / leopard.

Thanks.
This is all in the Time Machine interface, right?
I'm only guessing here, and someone else may see this and correct me, but it may be that as you go back in the TM interface to particular points in time, TM displays only files meeting the search criteria +which were modified on that date+.
Here's my reason for that speculation:
I did a search in TM for a file named "Gray01" which exists on my source drive now, and when I clicked the big "back" arrow in TM it went back a few days (even though that file existed on my drive every day in between) and stopped at the last-modified date, and then when I clicked the "back" arrow again it did the same thing, until I got to the creation date.
This may be implementation of a feature. "Mac 101: Using Time Machine" indicates:
+Besides restoring deleted files, Time Machine can restore previous versions of an existing file. For example, if you made changes to a really important presentation, then accidentally saved unwanted changes to the original file, Time Machine can restore the previous version, and preserve the current version too!+
So while you may have a number of files meeting your search criteria that existed in a particular backup, when you navigate in the TM window to that particular date and time TM first sees all the files that meet your criteria but then filters its display to only those which were modified on that particular date.
This would make sense to me if TM is designed to enable you to locate a particular prior version of a file.
What do you think?

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