Unable to recover lost Secure Notes using Time Machine

I inadvertently reset my default keychain.  Upon discovering my error, I used Time Machine to restore an earlier login.keychain from user/library/keychains.  All passwords, keys and certificates appear to have been successfully restored.  However, all of the secure notes--of which there were dozens--remain missing.
From reading similar threads I thought that restoring the login.keychain file would restore secure notes, but this didn't happen.  Does anyone have a suggestion?
I'm on an intel iMac running Lion, 10.7.2.  Thanks in advance.

Here's what worked for me:
Restore from Time Machine the folder ~user/library/keychains.  Note that your libary (and all its subfolders) are now invisible by default in Lion. There are a number of ways to reveal it, including those discussed here:
http://www.macworld.com/article/161156/2011/07/view_library_folder_in_lion.html
Look in the restored folder and you'll see a number of files that end with the extention ".keychain", for example....
login.keychain
...and any other keychains you may have previously created yourself.  Most likely, your secure notes are in the old login.keychain file.  Run the program Keychain Access (which you can find in the folder Applications/Utilities) and add back your old .keychain files by pulling down File-->Add Keychain. Your restored login.keychain should load automatically, but if it doesn't try adding it manually as just described. 
Hope this helps.  Good luck! 

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