Vista - Restore backup without deleted files

My hard drive recently went bang (long story) and as a result I need to fit a
new one, do a new install of vista and restore my files which are thankfully
all sitting on an external hard drive. I tried to restore to another
computer and though I do get everything back, I also get every file that I
have deleted in the past 10 months as well. Where I have reorganised folders
and files I get two copies, one in the original location and one wherever I
moved it to.

Is there a way (I'm sure there must be?) to restore my files as they were at
the date of the last backup and without all previously deleted files? Help
would be much appreciated.

Im in exactly the same boat so would also appreciate it if anyone can help us. This is an especially frustrating problem as I have been running daily backups from Vista Home Premium for 10 months to an external Seagate USB HDD. I have deleted hundreds of files in that time and reorganised my filing substantially. When my hard drive was replaced last week I restored to the most recent backup but find that although everything is in its proper place, I also have all the files I deleted mixed in. It will take me weeks to sort through all of this oif I can't find a way to get restore to do what it's meant to do!

Please help!

Thanks
Daniel