Need to recover Library/LaunchDaemons folder.

I deleted the Macintosh HD/Library/LaunchDaemons folder by mistake when I pressed Enter prematurely while using Terminal to try to delete the Parallels plist file. I have a recent version of the folder on the Time Machine HD but it won't let me restore it into the Library folder as the OS is in use. I was able to restore it to the desktop
Any way to do this? If I need to use Terminal, I'll need the commands.

I may have figured this out by myself. But first, I need to add that the OS did not allow me to copy the restored folder from the desktop to the Library Folder.
So, what I did was to create a new folder in the Library directory. I then copied the files from the restored folder on the desktop to the new folder and then renamed the folder LaunchDaemons. Seems to have worked OK.
Did I break anything?

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Fist off i am not a iMac genius, so bear with me as you read . I Just bought an Imac (21.5 monitor and 1TB with OS X Lion 2012 version). After transferring all my photos in the "Picture" folder (click, drag and drop into the "finder" then into the "picture" folder (not iPhoto yet) I then selected all the photos (dozens of folders and over 8,000 photos) click and drag then into iPhoto and they all successfully transferred (which took several minutes). I noticed when transferring most of the photos over it gave me the option to either transfer or discard duplicates, i chose to not import the duplicates. Since i had ALL my photos in iPhoto i decided to delete the old file that i copied earlier and empty the trash. In the deleting frenzy i accidentally deleted the "iPhoto Library" icon/folder )or whatever that picture is) and every time I open up iPhoto now it asked to either locate "iPhoto Album 1" (which can not be found) or start another album (which would be "iphoto Library 2" which opens up with none of my pictures.) Sooooo, after freaking out i downloaded 2 file recovery software program which seems to have found most if not all the pics (still need to pay to get a key code to get them back), however since i delted the photos that transferred into the finder>picture folder and did not delete any photos form iPhoto itself is there a way to get back the "iPhoto Library" that housed all my pictures? In theory all my pics are still in the hard drive but i do not know where to look for that little "iPhoto Library" icon/folder. What is the best Apple/Mac recovery software to purchase to get them back? Or are they all the same? Or is there a file buried deep in the hard drive that are hiding all my photos that tech support can guide me to? And if there is, how to i search for that? Any help would be great!

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Unless you have a back up of course...
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