Can't login after 10.6.7 update

Hey guys and gals.
I just updated to 10.6.7 and now that it has finished installing and restarted I can't seem to log in.
First a window pops up and tells me that my home folder protected by FileVault didn't open and needs to be repaired.
So I click OK to repair it.
But then it gives me a message that it's not able to log in at this time because an error occurred.
Needless to say. I'm kinda in a mild heart/panic attack.
So any help would be nice. Thanks.

One way you could be able to read/write to the encrypted disk image from the account with the issue is to Enable Root after enabling root, log out, on the login menu chose other so your prompted to type in a user name and password. Login as "root" with what ever password you set for root.
be very careful not to delete, rename or move any thing while logged in as root. you could do some thing that would cause you to need the install disks to get your computer working again.
At this point you should be able to go to the hard drive, double click on the Users folder, double click on the folder with the effected accounts name. And double click on the spare image in that folder. You should be prompted to type in the master file vault password, OR the old account password. Try bother, see if the image will mount.

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