Time Machine backup from previous install

Hey there,
I am a small question for the use of Time Machine. I have a week of backups in Time Machine and I am pretty happy with how it works, but my questions is IF I format my computer with a clean install of Leopard, will my "old" backups in Time Machine still work with the new install?
Will I be able to recover some files etc. from TM when backuped up in an old install?
Thank you in advance.
Kristia

It worked for me. I had several major problems with Leopard, I think due in part to using Disk Warrior on it. So I removed it and installed Tiger from a (cloned copy) external backup drive. Once my work was done I backed it up, then reinstalled Leopard via Time Machine restore running off the Leopard install DVD. I chose an earlier date, to avoid the problems I saw on the last time I used it and this time it worked.
The only thing was it took about 17 hours to restore the iMac back to Leopard.
I am using a Buffalo one TB external drive as my Time Machine backup drive. I highly recommend it since as soon as your current drive fills up Time Machine will start to recycle the previous backup copies. So the larger the drive the greater time span you can go back and recover from, otherwise over time your old files will be lost.
I hope this answered your question.
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