Restoring from leopard to snow leopard

Here's the situation.....
I tried upgrading to Snow leopard, but it crashed my HD. Apple replaced my HD and gave it back to me with Snow leopard already installed.
I had been backing up my info (previous to crash) to an external HD via Time Machine. They told me to have this external HD connected when I booted up for first time and it would ask me if I wanted to transfer any old info. from Time Machine. I did this, but my external HD would not come up in the list of available sources to choose from-so I just checked the "will recover files later" box and continued with opening.
SO- I essentially have a brand new Macbook with Snow Leopard installed (no pictures, no music). I want to restore a back-up from my external HD when I was using regular Leopard. Since I was using Leopard when I backed up last, and I now already have Snow leopard installed...will it be a problem?
AND...how do I do this? Isn't it smart enough to find the most recent backup by itself and restore it?

Wahaco9 wrote:
Cool, that definitely helps....but couldn't find the part about having back-ups from an older operating system. I found this.....
"You can restore your entire system from it's backups, unless you excluded System folders (see #11 above). But do not try this full system restore from a different Mac's backups. If it boots at all, many things will likely go wrong, as the new Mac won't have the correct hardware drivers, among other things."
Since my back-ups are from an older OS, will this be like using a 'different Mac's backups?'
if you use this option it will wipe your hard drive and restore your old leopard system back. it's possible but you'd have to reinstall snow leopard on top of it afterward. right now it might be easier to just migrate provided your backups are in order which is not clear. see my post above.

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