Migration Assistant did not transfer my network or computer settings as I expected. Do I have to manually reconfigure all my laptop settings after an erase of the hard drive and reload of the OS?

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Do I need to do some more formal kind of a restore from my back-up drive to recover/restore this information and "get my laptop back" or is it all lost?

When a newly installed Mac is started up the first time, Setup Assistant runs for that only time and can migrate everything over, including user accounts. Later on, Migration Assistant can migrate some of the stuff but not all, since the computer already has a config and data on it that MA can't overwrite.
If you reinstall SL again, wiping the HDD, SA will run at first start one more time and can do the full migration from the backup.

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