Upgraded to Lion and can't find previous backups

I upgraded a Macbook to Lion from Snow Leopard. The laptop had been on time machine backing up to a time capsule for about a year. Then when I fired up the laptop it wan't backing up. So I went into the "Time Machine Preferences" and it asked me to select disk. When I selected disk it wanted to re-back up the entire computer. It didn't recognize any of the previous backups.
Does anyone know how to keep the previous backups in the time machine so I can look at the older files still if I need to?

Jericho...
The User/Library folder is now hidden in Lion. To get to the "user" Library folder you now have to access it from Finder>Go>Go To Folder.
Once there, type this: /users/(your administrator name here)/Library/
Hope this helps...
I've been working in Lion just fine until tonight! I lost my EXS24II sampler Instruments too... but probably for another reason? -- Andy

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