Cant log in to Macbook after Time Capsule Full Restore

Hi,
I upgraded to Yosemite the other day and after doing so, I realized it locked me out of aperture, vmware fusion, and a few other programs which evidentially needed to be upgraded. I had a recent backup(pre-Yosemite) on my Time Capsule so I just chose to do a full restore from that backup. Everything went fine until it was time to log in to my profile. None of the passwords work. I even tried to reset the password with the master to no avail. It keeps popping up this error message; "You are unable to log in to the user account -insert name- at this time. Logging in to this account failed because an error occurred."
So I chatted with apple support. They came up with the solution through the recovery mode to reset the password via the command line. I went through the process and the system said it was successful. Still to no avail. Same error message.
I have a call with Apple support scheduled, but I'm impatient.
Any ideas?

Does it matter that the old OS(circa 2008) is pre-maverick? The time capsule file is certainly maverick. Also, does it matter that I was running file vault on the profile previously?
The old OS won't matter in terms of disk utility.. but it might affect the result for changing the admin user password.
File Vault though is a total pain.
I actually stay well away from using file vault because there is no way you can fix it.
Mess up that password and you are dead dead dead.
I recommend you have another go restore to a USB drive.. and then see if you can access it..
If you had have asked me a few days before you installed Yosemite I would have said.. DO NOT TRUST TM.
Create a bootable clone of your computer using CCC.
TM is now so buggy and so difficult to use it cannot be relied on for more than an occasional deleted file.. it is great when it works.. but trusting your files to it as a backup .. no way.

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