Q: I did the back up as instructed... Installed a larger hard drive and followed the restore instructions... Now I get a white screen with a folder icon and blinking question mark. When trying to set startup with new drive I get a bless tool error... Help!!

Try booting while holding down the Option key. That should prompt the Startup Manage window where you can select the startup disk.

A flashing question mark appears when you start your Mac

If you have installed a new hard drive , you will need to have formatted it in Disk Utility correctly. This may explain your problem.

Boot  into your 10.6 Install disk again at the top menubar > Utilities > select Disk utility and in there select your new hard drive, and select the tab Erase and choose to make the format as  Mac OS Extended Journaled. When that is finished look in the main window to make sure that the partition map scheme says GUID Partition Table.

Now go to the Restore tab and reinstall from your backup.