Time Machine no longer showing after fresh install

Right,
I decided to complete restore my Lion install as it was getting sluggish. I was running Lion before hand and my time machine would load just fine and appear on the desktop and in finder as said time machine.
Now for some reason it did not come up in my restore from time machine option when restoring and it is not even showing up as an external drive. How can I fix this? I have important files on my time machine which i need to access.
It's a usb hard drive and it worked perfectly before.
Any Help grately appreciated!
THANK YOU!

I had to reinstall Leopard and restore using TM. It also worked flawless for me. When I checked to see if it was backing up again, there was nothing. I also tried to manually back and that didn't work either. I went into System Preferences, Time Machine and had to choose my TM backup drive again. Once I did that it worked perfect.

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