Where are my backups gone?

Hi!
Today I upgrade my MacBook Pro to 10.6.2. First I manually did a last Time Machine backup to my always attached Time Machine Volume. Then I deleted my complete disk (BIG, big, mistake!) and did a fresh install of Mac OS X.
I then used Time Machine to recover my data from the latest backup, which is from January 9th, 2010! But then I realized that the latest data recovered is dated October 26th, 2009! Now I am missing all my pictures, e-mails and bought iTunes-Music, Mobile Applications for my iPod and some podcasts which I put on my hard disk between October 26th and yesterday.
Browsing the Time Machine Volume there are some files dated December something, 2009, but all my mailboxes are dated October 26th, 2009! There is lot a free space on the Time Machine Volume left, so where the f*ck are my backups? Time Machine always completed successfully, what am I doing wrong?
This is very bad, because photos can't be recovered and I am also missing some e-mails with software license keys...
Regards, a ****** Mac user... :-/

I'll give you some more, in-depth information:
Using Terminal I browse to "/Volumes/Time Machine-Backups/Backups.backupdb/MacBook", there are lots of directories starting "2009-10-15-235832", followed by "2009-10-26-233742" and the other directories for the weekly, daily and hourly kept Time Machine backups. "Latest" is linked to "2010-01-09-143122" (that's exactly the time I did the last backup before wiping my disk).
In "Latest" I find "MacBook" and then all my directories. So I "cd" to: "Users/<myname>/Library". Lets compare the listings of two directories:
ls -ltr "Mail Downloads": There are some e-mail attachments I got, and the latest files are dated dated 2009-12-21 -- just as expected.
ls -ltr "Mail/Mailboxes/<some-recent-changed-mailbox>/Messages": The latest files are dated 2009-10-15 -- that's the date of the first full backup I took!
As you can see, I did not exclude the Mail directory:
$ grep <myname> "/Volumes/Time Machine-Backups/Backups.backupdb/MacBook/Latest/.exclusions.plist"
<string>/Users/<myname>/Downloads</string>
<string>/Users/<myname>/Temp</string>
So -- why didn't Time Machine backed up my recent data, although Time machine told me it did?
Any suggestions welcome.
Regards, a still frustrated Mac user.

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