Windows Vista backup is useless

I recently upgraded the hard drive in my Macbook Pro. It has Leopard and Windows Vista on it. In order to prepare for the hard drive upgrade, I did a Time Machine backup with Leopard, as well as backing up my home directory. For Vista, I ran the full computer backup and the "files backup" and told it to back up all files. I reinstalled Leopard and everything worked fine. I booted Vista with the CD and told it to restore from my full backup. It proceeded to do so, but destroyed my Leopard installation in the process. I reinstalled Leopard and restored from the Time Machine backup. I reinstalled a fresh version of Vista. I did a full restore of my files in Vista. I proceeded to go into my drivers folders to install device drivers in Vista and all of the driver files were missing. It also restored various programs to c:\program files, minus all exe files. So now, I have no device drivers, no programs, and my Vista is useless. I also cannot find any way to extract any files out of the "full PC" backup. I used to think people were just being Microsoft haters when they said Vista sucks, but I truly cannot believe that they spent so much time and money developing something with such a useless backup solution.