Problem restoring from TM

Hi There,
I am having trouble restoring my system with 10.5 and Time Machine. I installed a new hard drive in my powerbook 15 and formated the new disk using disk utility (OSX Extended - Journaled). I can see the new drive fine in Disk Utility.
Then I try to restore from time machine. I select the backup I want to restore from and it goes off spinning away calculating the space required. This happens in a window which is called "Select a Destination"
My problem is that it never comes up with any options for the destination drive, even though it should be able to see my new hard drive. So I can't recover.
Any help apreciated!

Hello, we really need to repair the Disk first thing, there are 2 ways without th Install Disc...
Safe Boot from the HD, (holding Shift key down at bootup), run Disk Utility in Applications>Utilities, then highlight your drive, click on Repair Permissions.
(Safe boot may stay on the gray radian for a long time, let it go, it's trying to repair the Hard Drive.)
Or...
Does it boot to Single User Mode, CMD+s keys at bootup, if so try...
/sbin/fsck -fy
Repeat until it shows no errors fixed.
(Space between fsck AND -fy important).
Resolve startup issues and perform disk maintenance with Disk Utility and fsck...
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106214

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