Problem with time machine after replacing hard drive

A couple of days ago i went to the apple store and got the hard drive replaced on my macbook pro. When i got home i realized i couldnt back up from my time capsule. When i open time machine the only backups i can find are from "today" and i cant find anything else. I have not deleted anything and have not got any warnings about any backups being deleted.
I then went in to the time capsule from the sidebar in finder -> data, in which i found two sparsebundles. When clicking on the one i needed, i got this message:"no mountable filesystems". And from here on i dont know what to do.
I have been reading all over the forum, but can not find the answer. Also have in mind i am NOT a mac geek and know very little about this. I just want my important files back on my mac in a way i can understand.
Any help appreciated!

MAC.sparsebundle modified 21.june 2011 and MACBOOKpro.sparsebundle modified today
MAC.sparsebundle is the one i want to access.
2011-07-05 20:02:19 +0200: Disk Utility started.
2011-07-05 20:04:41 +0200: Verifying volume “Time Machine-sikkerhetskopier”
Starting verification tool:  2011-07-05 20:04:41 +0200
2011-07-05 20:04:41 +0200: Invalid content in Journal
2011-07-05 20:04:41 +0200: Checking Journaled HFS Plus volume.
2011-07-05 20:04:41 +0200: Detected a case-sensitive catalog.
2011-07-05 20:04:45 +0200: Checking Extents Overflow file.
2011-07-05 20:04:56 +0200: Checking Catalog file.
2011-07-05 20:23:35 +0200: Stopped by user
Verifying tool completed:  2011-07-05 20:23:35 +0200
2011-07-05 20:23:35 +0200:
2011-07-05 20:23:35 +0200:
2011-07-05 20:23:38 +0200: Verify and Repair volume “Time Machine-sikkerhetskopier”
Starting repair tool:  2011-07-05 20:23:38 +0200
2011-07-05 20:23:40 +0200: Invalid content in Journal
2011-07-05 20:23:40 +0200: Checking Journaled HFS Plus volume.
2011-07-05 20:23:43 +0200: Detected a case-sensitive catalog.
2011-07-05 20:23:47 +0200: Checking Extents Overflow file.
2011-07-05 20:23:54 +0200: Checking Catalog file.
2011-07-05 20:41:30 +0200: Stopped by user
Repair tool completed:  2011-07-05 20:41:33 +0200
2011-07-05 20:41:33 +0200:
2011-07-05 20:41:33 +0200:

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