Using TimeMachine to Restore a Mac with a Back Up of another Mac

I have a 24" iMac in my home office; I use TimeMachine to back it up. I have a 24" iMac at a client site whose TM back-ups were deleted... ...to save myself the stress of having to reinstall all my software, I tried to restore from the TM Back-Up of my home office machine. A great number of things failed. Adobe CS3, (which I am currently reinstalling, something I was trying to avoid), mobileMe failed for the longest time and required a great deal of fiddling...
...anyone have any idea why this all went so darn wrong? I've got most problems solved, but I'd like to know how to avoid this issue in the future. For example, why did all of my software go bad and require new installs?
Message was edited by: arsenalarmada

V.K. is correct.
What do you mean by "all my software"?
Unless you specifically excluded your Applications folder, all your Apple apps, and almost all 3rd-party apps, if that's where you put them, should have been saved by TM, and restored. (A few 3rd-party apps are coded by their authors so TM can't save them.
If you put them anywhere else, they still should have been saved and restored, unless you specifically excluded those places.

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