Upgraded HD, not able to restore from Time Machine

My MBP came with Leopard installed, and a Snow Leopard upgrade DVD. I have since upgraded to Lion through the App Store. Yesterday I decided to upgrade my HD with the thought that I would use Time Machine to move my old system to the new hardware. After using the Leopard recovery disc that came with my MBP 17" I wasn't able to use Time machine because of an OS compatibility issue. There was a warning saying that the OS that I just installed was oldr and my ime Machine backup wouldn't work.
Will I have to pay for the Lion upgrade again to get the same computer to be compatible to the Time Machine backup that I have?

I upgraded the HD of the MBP. Before taking out the old HD I ran Time machine one more time then removed the HD, replacing it with the new one. I reinstalled Leopard from the OEM recovery disc that came with the computer on to the new HD, installed the updates for Leopard, and tried to use Time Machine to recover the setup that was on the old HD before I removed it - Lion, my applications, documents, etc.
Is there another way that I should be moving the system from the old drive to the new?

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Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
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For more information on this, take a look at:
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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3275?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US
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MichelPM,
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