Restore without install disk?

My hard drive is toast. I have an external drive I can boot from, a complete time machine backup, and a new hard drive that I want to restore my backup from....but my install disk is at the office.
I want to boot from the external drive and do a complete restore on the new disk from the backup, but how can I do this without the "Restore System From Backup" utility?

Yeah, I know that TM backups aren't bootable. I did try one other option, though. I installed a system on my new drive and tried to use Migration Assistant to copy everything over, but that didn't work either.
I gave up and got the install disk from my office.

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