Account inaccessible after restore (Filevault)

I'd been having problems increasing the size of my boot camp partition, so, following advice from this forum, I backed up, formatted and restored the hard drive of my Snow Leopard Intel Macbook Pro. After restoring, I immediately tried to login, but after entering my password, I got the message "Cannot log in to this filevault account." I tried resetting the password with the master password, but after that it would not accept any password, new or old.
What makes this doubly odd is that I turned off filevault before making the backup. Looking through Finder from another account, all of my folders are there (not as a sparse bundle), although obviously the other account does not have permissions to access these folders.

I'll give it a go, but it's not really that it refuses the password - it actually accepts the password, and decides afterwards that it can't access the account.
UPDATE: Okay, that's odd. It won't reset the password. I get "CSSMERRCODE_MEMORYERROR" when I try.
Message was edited by: Jaceon

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