TIme Machine won't allow me to restore

I backed up my computer on the 8th of February and I went about 12 days before backing up again. But I realized some problems with a few changes I made, and now I can not restore to this point, or any point to be exact. My Time Machine, even if I backed up 20 seconds ago will not allow me to restore to that point. Any Suggestions

Johnathan,
Time Machine cannot be used to "regress" to some point in the past, at least not the way you are thinking. You are thinking of the Windows "restore point" functionality, and that is not what Time Machine does.
You can restore files or folders that you might have mistakenly trashed, provided these files still reside in at least one backup. Or, you can restore your entire installation.
This latter requires that you first boot to the Leopard install DVD (or your "Software Restore" disk, if your computer came with Leopard), then erase the internal hard drive, and finally that you use the installer's "Restore From a Time Machine Backup" function.
This allows you to choose from the range of complete backups that Time Machine has made, and to restore that entire backup, OS, applications, user data and all. When the process is complete, your computer will restart, and you will be right back to the point where that backup was made. This can be used in conjunction with the restoration of a later version of your HOME folder to "roll back" to an earlier version of OS X, but retain all of your current user data, for example. Doing this sort of thing quickly becomes complicated, however.
Does this information help you?
Scott

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