Restoring Pictures from Previous MacBook Backup

Hi,
I recently upgraded to a MacBook Pro and I back it up with the same Time Machine ext. hard drive that backed up my previous MacBook. 
I'm trying to restore some pictures from my old MacBook backup, is there a way to access the MacBook backup on my MacBook Pro to do this?
I tried playing around with Time Machine but the Pictures folder it displayed had a red minus on it and couldnt be opned.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
P

Hold down the option key and select Browse Other Backup Disks from the Time Machine menu. Select the MacBook in the list that appears. You may get an error message that you don't have permission to access the files. In that case, proceed as follows.
Turn Time Machine OFF temporarily in its preference pane. Leave the window open.
Navigate in the Finder to your backup disk, and then to the folder named "Backups.backupdb" at the top level of the volume. If you back up over a network, you'll first have to mount the disk image file containing your backups by double-clicking it. Descend into the folder until you see the snapshots, which are represented by folders with a name that begins with the date of the snapshot. Find the one you want to restore from. There's a link named "Latest" representing the most recent snapshot. Use that one, if possible. Otherwise, you'll have to remember the date of the snapshot you choose.
Inside the snapshot folder is a folder hierarchy like the one on the source disk. Find one of the items you can't restore and select it. Open the Info dialog for the selected item. In the Sharing & Permissions section, you may see an entry in the access list that shows "Fetching…" in the Name column. If so, click the lock icon in the lower right corner of the dialog and authenticate. Then delete the "Fetching…" item from the access list. Give yourself read access if you don't already have it. Click the gear icon below the list and select Apply to enclosed items from the popup menu.
Now you should be able either to copy the item in the Finder or to restore it in the time-travel view. If you use the time-travel view, be sure to select the snapshot you just modified. If successful, repeat the operation with the other items you were unable to restore. You can select multiple items in the Finder and open a single Info dialog for all of them by pressing the key combination option-command-I.
When you're done, turn TM back ON and close its preference pane.

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