Restoring in Lion, using Time Machine saved in Snow

I just replaced my HD and am in the process of reinstalling numerous items. I now have Lion, but prior to replacing the HD, I had Snow. I simply imported my vcard into address book, but it combined all the groups. I must have them separated, and there are over a 1,000.
I'd like to do it the easy way: open address book, open time machine, choose last address book back up and voila! Um yeah, apparently you can't since I'm now running Lion.
I do still have the vcard on one of my many hard drives. 
I need assistance w/getting the music in iTunes as well.

iTunes is easy, just remove the originals out of your iTunes Library, diddo for iPhoto Library by right clicking on it and "show package contents", re-import into Snow iTunes and iPhoto.
Thing is not to use TimeMachine. Apple doesn't expect you to "go back" and naturally places blocks in the way as it moves forward improving it's bundled programs, so avoiding TimeMachine and transfering manually or via cloning methods.
Now if you have extensive playlists, it might be easier to do this:
If you back on Snow, clone it and disconnect.
Then downgrade to Lion again by hold option clicking on Purchases in AppStore
Once back in iTunes Lion, choose View > Show Groupings.
Tag your music with the Groupings, it's a tag on the song itself, instead of being a iTunes Library playlist.
When your done importing the music back into Snow iTunes, use the Grouping tags in your Smart Playlist criteria.
Now boot off the Snow Clone and erase media, reverse clone. Carbon Copy Cloner or Superdupes.
Also while you got Lion, make bootable DVD's/USB from the Lion installer before installing Lion
http://eggfreckles.net/notes/burning-a-lion-boot-disc/
Make a Lion Disk Recovery USB
https://support.apple.com/kb/dl1433
also make copies of your Snow Leopard disks
http://www.walterjessen.com/make-a-bootable-backup-snow-leopard-install-disc/
So you can restore Lion if need be

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