Restoring to Mountain Lion.

Hey guys!
I am using mac from the past one year but sadly, I am still a mac newbie So, I need your help.
I had Sleopard when I got my early 11 MBP and upgraded to Lion with the free up to date program. Since then my mac has been acting like an old Windows pc with impotent hardware, hanging every now and then, freezing, super slow.
So, Mountain Lion was a blessing! I did a clean install of it on my Startup drive using guides available.
I had prior to installing Mlion, made a new partion of my HDD (320GB) and used that to take a time machine backup of my drive. The backup is there, and I can access those files even now using finder.
Now, I want to restore my files (images, music etc) as well as some apps but nothing that will cause the old problems to come back. I can use Migration Assistant to restore the user files easily I know, but user account names are different so will it work fine and restore everything to its proper place?
Also, if I start time machine ie enable it, and select the same partition where my old backup is (of the lion install) what exactly will happen? will it overwrite that? create new folder or what..
How do I restore specific apps? I can copy paste from Finder, but is that the right way?
Those are few questions I'd be glad if I get some advice on. Basically it comes to restoring data from an old install in such a way which does not bring old problems back.
Thanks!!

okay I got the thing about copying data fro finder. I am doing it slow and steady..
I also know using internal drive for TM is wrong, but currently have no other option.
OMG! I just realized I lost all the iLife apps! this did not happen when I "upgraded" to lion.
When I copied iphoto to apps and ran it, it gave me an error:
"iPhoto cannot be opened because of a problem.
Check with the developer to make sure iPhoto works with this version of OS X. You may need to reinstall the applicaton. Be sure to install any available updates for the application and OS X."
What should I do?
My question now remains is that, how can I start using Time Machine again? If I enable it from preferences what will it do? overwrite my old backup? Keep a new folder what?
One quick question:
opening anything in preview (if preview application is not currently running) takes a second and is noticeable. Is it working fine or IIRC in Sleopard it was INSTANT!

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If you knew your sql, I don't think it would be insurmountable to pull apart the full dump.
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