Time Machine Restore fail from Yosemite

Ok, so this issue appears to be multi-faceted so please bear with me as I try to fully explain what's happening.
I have a mid-2009 Macbook Pro with OSX 10.6.8, and I decided to give Yosemite a try since it was free. Before upgrading, I did a Time Machine backup on an external 500GB WD drive in case I wanted to switch back to Snow Leopard.
I did the upgrade, but wasn't very pleased with the results. Seeing as how the computer was older I figured it would slow down a touch, but what broke the deal was when I tried to run After Effects and had plugins - that never gave me trouble before - crashing. I decided to restore from Time Machine and rebooted into Recovery Mode. However, by accident I selected the External Drive with the backups as my boot disk. I quickly rebooted AGAIN and selected the Recovery drive, but the TM drive wasn't showing up when I tried to access it for the backup.
I rebooted back to Yosemite and found that the drive was not mounting despite lighting up and making spinny sounds. Disk Utility could see it but was unable to repair, so I used DiskWarrior instead. Everything seemed to work out ok and the drive was reading on my desktop as a TM backup. I rebooted AGAIN to recovery mode, selected the appropriate backup, and let the computer do it's work overnight.
When I woke up in the morning and checked in on it, I got an error message saying that the restoration had FAILED at some point along the way. I tried to reboot normally, but the grey screen of death would appear after a few seconds and I'd have to shut down.
I went back to Recovery mode, tried to access the TM drive, but once again it was not showing up! So I reinstalled Yosemite and was able to login to my desktop. The TM drive was still showing up, and according to a reinstalled DiskWarrior the drive was fine. I rebooted in Recovery, selected the TM backup, and it only took about 20 minutes before the restoration failed! This time the computer appeared to be wiped clean, with no OS.
Fortunately I still had my Snow Leopard install DVD, so I managed to reinstall it from there. However, now I CANNOT login. My username shows up but the password I've used for FOUR YEARS is constantly rejected. I can't even login to the GUEST account!
If you've made it this far, PLEASE HELP!!!!

Boot off the DVD again and under the Utilities menu select Reset password. Boot normally and test.

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Your tirade assumes that everyone who posts here must know the innermost workings of all the software that comes with a Mac. That's as valid as my assuming that everyone here has good interpersonal skills.
As a matter of fact I have indeed sold a bunch of artwork, and that after a successful career, after my doctorate, in the world of biophysics and biotechnology - your analysis of my capabilities leaves a great deal to be desired (aka there are other sciences than computer science). You do seem to have caught on, however, that I don't know that much about how to diagnose technical problems on a Mac.
Despite your apparent intention, you have helped my by considering restoring my backup to a different disk.

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http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=5976681
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*Note to anyone viewing this thread*
To restore from a time machine backup use Utility under the Leopard Install Disc and select a Time Machine Backup to restore. NOT Migration Assistant after Install and not the function after the install process where you choose the backup with your name,apps et. ( basically Migration assistant again but in leopard). You must use Utility from the Menu bar after the Leopard install disc restores.
To PERMANENTLY delete an item from ALL time machine backup-- Within the time Machine application Window select a back up other than the most previous one (why this is I do not know). Highlight the document and in the upper menu bar select the "cog" looking icon. The menu then drops down. Select *DELETE PERMANENTLY FROM ALL BACKUPS*. You cant do it through finder. You cant right click delete. You cant drag it in the trash.
I hope this thread helps anyone if they have a similar problem.
Once again thanks to Erik for all the detailed help!!!!
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Restoring my system from TM leaves me with an unusable system that kernel panics immediately on boot. My workaround is just to ignore TM and restore from a different kind of backup (a clone made with SuperDuper, as it happens).
I think it would be a bit generous to Time Machine to call this a "workaround"! Time Machine doesn't work for me.
Has anyone ever solved the problem of full restores of their TM backup leaving them with a system that has this problem?

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I didn't have this information prior to the update. boo.
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