MacBook Pro Not Accepting Time Machine Restore

I'm officially stumped. Let me explain...
In preparation for upgrading OS 10.9.5 to Yosemite, I completed a full backup of my MacBook Pro, purchased in August 2010. The following morning, (I'd not yet upgraded to Yosemite), I noticed that the Drive Pulse monitor for Drive Genius was red. I checked the log and it said there was a volume consistency error with Mac HD. I ran Disk Utility and verified the disk - it said there was an issue (don't remember what) and to boot into the recovery partition and repair the disk. I did so and the drive could not be repaired, so it told me to format it. Good thing I'd just backed up last night, right?
I formatted the drive and then from within the recovery partition, went to restore the drive from the backup. It said there was an error and the backup couldn't be restored. I tried restoring the previous backup - same issue. Ok, so I then tried to reinstall the OS from the recovery partition. It wanted to install 10.8, which the App Store said was not available. I then created a bootable USB drive with Mavericks on it. The OS installed just fine and within the OS setup, I selected to restore my backup from the previous evening. The system went through the whole process of restoring the backup, only when the system restarted, nothing was there. Hmm... I tried using Migration Assistant, same problem. I then made a bootable USB drive of Yosemite, which installed just fine. Tried restoring the backup both during the OS install and using Migration Assistant - no luck.
I took the MBP to the Apple Store today. They first ran a diagnostic on the hard drive - it passed. They then reformatted the entire drive, which included wiping out the recovery partition. As part of the format, they first formatted using the Apple partition table and then re-did the format using GUID. Next up they re-installed the base OS that came with the system, which was 10.6. The OS installed fine, but 10.6 couldn't be upgraded to 10.9.5, so they did a restore using 10.9.5. They then told me to try the restore again when I got home, which I did. No luck. Apple Store also said if things don't work, come back with the MBP and the Time Capsule since they can manually pull data out of a backup and put it back on the system.
Two additional pieces of info to mention. When I log into my Time Capsule (I have the 3TB version), the backup for this MBP is there. I can open it, navigate through it, etc. Second piece of info is I just successfully restored a backup of my girlfriend's MBP onto my MBP. I'm currently trying again to restore my backup, but does anyone know what's going on or have any suggestions?

There is definitely nothing in the drive - and I very rarely use it...
System report:
MATSHITA DVD-R   UJ-868:
Firmware Revision:          KB19
Interconnect:          ATAPI
Burn Support:          Yes (Apple Shipping Drive)
Cache:          2048 KB
Reads DVD:          Yes
CD-Write:          -R, -RW
DVD-Write:          -R, -R DL, -RW, +R, +R DL, +RW
Write Strategies:          CD-TAO, CD-SAO, DVD-DAO
Media:          To show the available burn speeds, insert a disc and choose File > Refresh Information

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