Trouble Restoring Backup

Hello all!
Here's the background:
My mom's late 2007 macbook with Tiger had its home folder backed up to DVDs with Backup. Her hard drive decided to die, so I replaced it. However, my mom lost her OSX 10.4 system disc. This was no big problem, and we just ordered a 10.5 system disc and loaded that on the computer.
Now, here is my dilemma. I installed the Backup program on her newly restored computer, inserted the first backup disc, but when I go into the Backup utility and select the backup disc, the "restore selection" button does not activate. I can not figure out how to recover this data. Please provide your suggestions.
Thank you!

Backup doesn't seem to handle restoring from a multi-disc backup without the original plan.
I think it keeps the multi-disk info in the plan data in the home folder's +Library/Application Support+ or Library/Backup folder. With that gone, it's just confused.
(Backup was originally designed to get relatively-small (100 mb or so) amounts of data off-site, to your iDisk (and I still use it for that, in addition to TIme Machine), but it just doesn't handle multi-gb backups all that well.)
So, if you can, try the "restore from this disc." You may get that for each disc in the set.
If that doesn't work, there's an even more difficult and tedious workaround, so post back with your results.
One other question: are these all one "Full" backup, or are there any "incrementals"?

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