Why is overwritten file opening new file for all backed up versions of file?

I accidentally overwrote an important file by accidentally selecting the wrong file to be replaced. I was at a client's premises when it happened and the external time machine drive was not connected. So there should be no problem because my time machine hard drive was at home with the old file in the time machine back ups right? Wrong.
When I go into time machine, whether through searching in the individual folder or "Enter Time Machine" method, it always opens the new overwritten version of the file!
The original just has to be on the external Time Machine hard drive! It wasn't connected to the computer when I overwrote the file on my computer. So why are all versions of the back up opening the new version of the file and not opening the back versions of the file?! What good is Time Machine if it is opening new versions of the overwritten file when you want to open the old versions of the backed up file?

tryb4buy wrote:
Am I the first person ever to try and recover overwritten files with Time Machine?
Of course not. Plenty of people use TM to recover files or restore entire disks regularly. What you are describing is very strange, which suggests that either there is some rogue bug in TM, or that events have not occurred in quite the way that you think or are describing.
Clearly, there is no way that a file can magically appear on your backups before you created it, when the drive is not attached. So the only way it could have got there is for TM to run a backup and somehow corrupt all versions with the new file. So did TM run a backup before you attempted a restore?
How far back do your backups for this file go? How often did you attach the external disk to allow TM to run backups?
What version of OS X are you on?
Are you using the TM application to browse through your backups, or the Finder?

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