Restore System with Time Machine?

It seems to be this SHOULD be easy - but in three hours I just haven't been able to figure it out.
How do I do a system restore with time machine?
I did a back up a week ago. Yesterday I had some kind of major glitch that messed up an unknown number of my files. I figured "that's okay, I'll just restore everything to last week and that will be fine." Except I can't seem to find out how to do that!
I have no idea how many files are affected, but last week it was all fine. I did a diagnostic and it says my hardware is fine. I did the safe boot start up and everything is supposed to be okay on my drive. But my files and software is still messing up - and I think if I can just put it back to last week, I'm fine.
I do not have a CD that works (I found one, put it in, and the system won't boot from it). I do have my backup drive. What do I do?

See if the instructions here work for you:
http://pondini.org/TM/14.html
You really should get replacement installation disks from Apple Customer Service.  They will need the serial number of your MBP and there is a charge.
Ciao.

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    Path: /System/Library/CoreServices/ReportCrash
    Identifier: ReportCrash
    Version: ??? (???)
    Code Type: X86 (Native)
    Parent Process: launchd [1]
    Date/Time: 2009-03-12 11:05:40.590 -0400
    OS Version: Mac OS X 10.5.6 (9G55)
    Report Version: 6
    Exception Type: EXCBADACCESS (SIGBUS)
    Exception Codes: 0x000000000000000a, 0x0000000000366000
    Crashed Thread: 1
    Thread 0:
    0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x946eb226 semaphoretimedwait_signaltrap + 10
    1 libSystem.B.dylib 0x9471d1ef pthread_condwait + 1244
    2 libSystem.B.dylib 0x9471ea73 pthreadcond_timedwait_relativenp + 47
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    4 com.apple.Foundation 0x94172570 -[NSConditionLock lockWhenCondition:beforeDate:] + 144
    5 com.apple.Foundation 0x941724d5 -[NSConditionLock lockWhenCondition:] + 69
    6 ReportCrash 0x0000a3eb 0x1000 + 37867
    7 ReportCrash 0x00002466 0x1000 + 5222
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    8 ReportCrash 0x00002eef 0x1000 + 7919
    9 ReportCrash 0x000094a2 0x1000 + 33954
    10 ReportCrash 0x0000b5d4 0x1000 + 42452
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    15 libSystem.B.dylib 0x9471bf52 thread_start + 34
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    0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x946eb1c6 machmsgtrap + 10
    1 libSystem.B.dylib 0x946f29bc mach_msg + 72
    2 libSystem.B.dylib 0x94747fd9 machmsg_serveronce + 318
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    edi: 0x00000000 esi: 0x001b28d0 ebp: 0xb00807d8 esp: 0xb0080780
    ss: 0x0000001f efl: 0x00010297 eip: 0x0007d903 cs: 0x00000017
    ds: 0x0000001f es: 0x0000001f fs: 0x0000001f gs: 0x00000037
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    Thanks for responding.
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    Message was edited by: Immolate

  • Restore Mac with time machine, consequences for itunes library

    Ok, here is the problem, if there is one. (Using SnowLeopard)
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    christian111113456 wrote:
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