Time machine thinks I have OSX Lion

Last night I tried to upgrade the hard drive on my macbook pro. I pressed "back up now" with time machine to make sure I had a current snapshot of the system. Then I replaced the hard drive, booted off the time machine and tried to restore the system. The restore failed with the message "Error occurred while restoring from backup. Restart your computer and then try restoring again." After doing some reading online, I decided I would try to install OSX and restore my personal files using the migration assistant. However when I boot off the time machine it only gives me the option to install OSX Lion (not Mountain Lion which is what I'm using). This then fails because I have not bought Lion, I upgraded directly from Snow Leopard.
Why is time machine not giving me the option to install Mountain Lion? Could the be related to why the full system restore is failing?
Thanks for your help
Bago

It appears that Internet Recovery is in use, and that restores the OS that came with the machine. Just do the restore and then login to the App Store and re-download the copy of Mountain Lion you purchased.

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