Time machine on old machine, can I restore to new computer?

I have an external drive with Time Machine backups from my old computer. When I mounted that drive on my new computer, I was asked if I wanted to use that for Time Machine and I said no. I have just copied what I need from that drive to my new computer. My question--can I restore all the files on that drive to the new computer? Or will Time Machine want to overwrite my files so it can backup my new computer? Thanks.
Bea/CA (my alias of Bea/NJ is no longer true)

Now for something completely different...
I bought a new MacBook Pro and used a Time Machine backup from my iBook G4 to get my new MacBook Pro set up. Everything worked great.
So I would definitely recommend using a Time Machine backup to get your new Mac running.

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