Missing files following time machine restore

I recently had my hard drive replaced by Apple following a recall of the particular drive installed in my machine when I bought it. Before taking it into Apple I had completely backed up my machine onto an external drive using Time Machine. Once the drive was replaced I restored the system using Time Machine but since have noticed a couple of quirks.
The first is that I'm missing files from iPhoto. The missing files are from my most recent upload and are a combination of images and video which were uploaded together. iPhoto knows they should be there because it's showing the file name (and video length for the video files) but the files themselves are missing and cannot be found when searching for them in Spotlight or when using the "show file" option in iPhoto.
The other major bugbear is that I'm missing a lot of my album artwork within iTunes - this includes for music, TV shows and movies. These were all there before the hard drive was replaced but are missing following the reinstall.
Fortunately I asked Apple to provide me with the original drive which I have but I'm unsure about what I need to do to fix the two issues above. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Restore your iPhoto and iTunes libraries in the time-travel interface. If that doesn't work, try an older snapshot. Some files may be missing because the drive was malfunctioning. That was the reason for the recall.

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Reverting to a previous Mac OS X version
If you’ve used Time Machine to back up your computer, you can easily revert to a previous version of Mac OS X if you’re experiencing trouble after installing an update.
IMPORTANT: Reverting to the previous version of Mac OS X will erase any additions or changes you’ve made to the files on your computer after installing the new version of Mac OS X. To save new or revised files, copy them onto a different disk or back them up using Time Machine before you follow these instructions. Use Time Machine only if you’re reverting to a previous version of Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard), since Time Machine is not available with Mac OS X 10.4 or earlier.
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Insert the disc you used to install the new version of Mac OS X, and double-click the Install Mac OS X icon.
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In the Restore Your System dialog, click Continue.
Select your Time Machine backup volume.
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Follow the onscreen instructions.
If you backed up any individual files as described under the Important message above, you can restore them now. If you backed them up using Time Machine, recover them using the Time Machine application. (You’ll find the Time Machine application in the Dock or in the Applications folder.)
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