Dave,
Would this be essentially the same starting conditions one would find after having a failed drive replaced with a newly-installed and initialized (fresh OS install) hard drive from via AppleCare? I wasn't thinking too quickly, and let it guide me through an initial user setup, so it created an account with id 501 which already existed in the backup. Also, like falk, none of the other accounts show up as users though the folders are still there.
I have a sparse image backup to restore from (obviously from the trial version), and would like to restore as much of the system as possible. Should I do a delete & install of the OS, and then perform a restore prior to creation of user accounts?
Two months of evaluation that include an HD failure are pretty convincing for sales, let me tell you
Looking forward to the restore so I can register my copy and take advantage of the faster and more flexible backup capabilities.