Thank you SD!!!
 

You pulled my fat outta the fire!

I decided to reinstall my MacOS Lion because it's been a long time and there were a few buggy things that were bugging me.

I thought (I am not a techie) I could just reinstall everything and then use Time Machine to polish it off.

Well TM had something else in store. It would not go along with my plan and basically said "no" when I tried to get it to restore. No idea why and at this point I was facing a big problem.

However I simply turned on my backup drive, started up SD and praise be to gawd, it performed magic.

This is not the first time! You're a good thing to have in my shirt pocket. ;)

Glad to hear your fat is un-fired!