Problem restoring iphoto library

I had to erase my HD in prder to go back from Lion to Snow Leopard in order to access an application incompatible with Lion. Then I re-installed Lion, and restored my files from Carbonite. No library.  I did find a copy of the library on a time Machine backup from 2/16/12 which looks complete and which I can access. However, when I try to copy the library to my HD by dragging the icon from the backup drive, I get a message "can't be completed because you don'y have permission to access "photo library."
Does anyone know what i need to do to get this library back on my HD, so that when I next baxkup I will have it it all 3 olaces - the HD, the external drive and on Carbonite?
Thanks,
Peter315

Time machine backups are restored using Time Machine - launch TM and go to the time you want to restroe from and select the iPhoto library and click "restore" to restore it
LN

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