Will time machine reinstall photoshop and other softwares that i have added on my iMac ?

I am backing up my disk with time machine so i can fomat my imac and reinstall Lion as i expirience some problems with the faction of my imac !
Will time machine reinstall photoshop and other softwares that i have added on my iMac ?
Do i have to install them again from scratch ?
I have a six year's university work + my research paper for my dissertation , will be restored or i will lose them ?
PLEASE HELP ..
ps: time machine is taking way too long to back up 83gb , is it normal ?

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Please help guys, I have a Time machine at home and it will not allow me to remove the listing of my external hard drive from the excluded files list.
I am trying to use time machine to back up the hard drive. For backing up from Macbooik pro and Imac, there is no problem. It seems to not want to allow the external drive to be removed from the Excluded list and as such will not back up from it.
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