Time Machine "resets" after Snow Leopard install.

This may be answered in other threads, if so I'd appreciate a pointer to them. I couldn't find an appropriate one in my searches.
I have a MBA and recently installed Snow plus the 10.6.1 update. I was having various issues and reinstalled Snow, leaving me at 10.6.0.
I had deleted some applications to free up some space, and decided to restore them with Time Machine (TM). The first time I opened TM, it seemed normal and I restored one of the applications.
Then my external drive where TM backs up to began to backup. Later I tried to open up TM and my desktop froze. After several reboots still had the same issue, I did a Safe Boot. Then rebooted as normal.
Now TM asks if I want to start backing up, net new. It doesn't appear to see the old backups anymore.

Try the Snow Leopard forums. You are now in the Leopard forums. Wrong place for a SL question.
TM questions should be posed in the Time Machine topic area of the Leopard forums. At the top of the TM forum are three User Contributed Tips that you should read to see if you are able to find a solution for your problem.

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