I have noticed that "Folder that is supposed to have the driver for a restore" seems to not work.
I believe if you are on a 64 bit os that you are backing up, it pulls the 64 bit drivers which won't work on a restore.
I'm just guessing, haven't tried.
But it is getting harder to get the raw 32 bit drivers. And as 32 bit fades away, If my guess is right it will become increasingly hard to do a restore.
I have started going to the PC's around the house and using windows backup to create a system image backup to a folder on the server and set it to monthly, time mid day when nobodies at home.
That way I might have two shots to restore. It does take up room, but it might be worth it if I can't find 32 bit drivers.
Normally I just reload clean, as all the pc's keep any extra files on the server, but with all the updates now days, doing a restore will save time, if it is in a good state when it goes down.
And most are not including recovery disks anymore like they use to, your lucky if you get a recovery partition which needs to be backed up as well.
Glad you were able to get it to work, Microsoft had a great idea with WHS, to bad they abandoned it. But I will be using it till it won't go no more.
Good Luck and enjoy!!