Restoring old keychain accounts and passwords?

Hi,
I had major folder problems with my system HD that were pretty much irrepairable with anything else other than Disk Warrior. After repairing directories with DW, my system HD didn't have a recognisable version of 10.4 on it. So I went ahead and carried out an 'archive and install' installation of a fresh copy of 10.4. I've reloaded my old Safari bookmarks no problem, but I'm having problems with my old keychain accounts and passwords. In my 'Previous Systems' folder after the archive and install, I went to ~/Library/keychains and couldn't find anything in there to throw into my new keychains folder... am I looking for the right file? Does the com.apple.keychainaccess.plist file in my home help at all? I tried using the keychain first aid on the keychain access .app but it was no help.
Please can you help? I have a rather large keychain list that I really really don't want to lose!

For those who are referring to this thread for the reason of the OP (Restore after Archive and Install), the keychain file that you want for Safari bookmarks is in your User file, so you need not freak out about not having backed it up. It is there in your Previous folder. You may have to do something tricky with the file permissions, but maybe not.
Here is what I did. I opened the current Users/YourUserName/Library/Keychains and right-clicked the login.keychain and made a copy of it. Then I moved the original to the trash. Then I copied the old login.keychain over from the Previous/Users/YourUserName/Library/Keychains. At some point I had to authenticate the action (moving the default login.keychain to the trash?).
This is such a relief to not have to re-enter all of my u/p's all over the place. I'd changed several of them since my last backup, so it's inspiration to backup more often.
For the record, restoring after an archive and install, mostly consists of dragging files from one folder to a similarly named folder in the new user folder. Sometimes there are subfolders or files that can not be overwritten (like this one), where you want to backup, delete, and copy, and sometimes you'll just want to let it keep the new one. Sometimes it is a new folder and you can just drag the folder to the new position as well. I haven't even gotten into the depths of working out all the kinks, but I'm impressed with how much has been recovered so far given that I thought I had to start over at one point. I'm going to get everything freshly backed up before re-installing 10.6.2--not to worry!
M@

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