Trying to restore from a TM on a mounted share?, trying to restore from a TM on a mounted share?

I have a 10.6 laptop which I backed up using Time Machine to a destination on an Xserve. I just got a new Air (10.7) and want to restore as much of the apps, settings, preferences, data, etc. as appropriate from that backup to the new machine. I've mounted the Xserve's disk (via wifi) and I can see the laptop.sparsebundle in the TM share - clearly the Air has access to it and in fact if I want to browse it from the Time Machine on the Air, it works. But when I run migration assistant, it doesn't see it - just sits there "Looking for Other Computers" with the gray wheel spinning. What am I doing wrong?

> Be sure you select From a Time Machine backup or other disk.
I did that.
> it's possible the backups are damaged.
I don't think that was it: I tried browsing them from TM on the Air, which worked fine, and after that, suddenly Migration Assistant saw it as a valid source from which to restore.

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