Restoring osx from mybook:  will iPhoto and iTunes be there?

My imac hard drive crashed.  I did online restore.  The system does not find the mybook backup via time machine.  I can see mybook and it's contents in disk utility.  If I restore from mybook to Mac OSX Base System in disk utility will iphoto and iTunes be there?  If not, how do I retrieve them?  What is the best way for me to proceed to be fully operational again?  Thank you.

Sounds like the hard drive died. Good thing you have a backup. Unless your backup was on another partition of the same drive. Then that may be gone for good, too.

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