File Vault - Hard Drive Crash

All,
My HD crashed, and "Disk Utility" was unable to repair it. Apple store geniuses told me to get a 3rd party restore utility, like Data Rescue II. Did so, and recovered my data. But my whole home directory is one large (36 GB) file, which is my file vault.
I have "harvested" that all I can off of the bad drive to a good mac HD. I think my next step is to format and reinstall 10.3.9 on to the broken machine. But before I do that, I'd like advice about recovering the File Vault.
How do I open that File Vault to get back to all my important data? I of course still have my password for the vault. Thanks for suggestions.
I'm using 10.3.9.
G5 Dual 1.8 GHz   Mac OS X (10.3.9)  

Thanks Niel,
Does anyone know if a partially-corrupted sparseimage can be opened, or must it be 100% in-tact?
I used Data Rescue II to pull data off the drive. Looks like much of it was recovered successfully, but my sparesimage filevault file is strange. I believe it to be multiple gigs in size based on the digital photos and movies I have in my home directory. The recovered sparseimage is only 22 MB. Data Rescue says it is 36 GB on the scan. 36 GB sounds a bit high, and 22 MB is a bit low. I am re-running with a through scan, and perhaps that can recover the sparseimage in full.
I attempted both Niel's suggestion, and also another suggestion to use Terminal and the unix utility "hdiutil". Niel's method locked the good mac as it tried to open the sparseimage, and the hdiutil simply failed after repeated attempts.
I wish I did not use FileVault to store all of my pictures and videos. It would be more appropriate for storage of only my accounting and personal information. Even better - wish I would have backed up much more frequently.
G5 Dual 1.8 GHz Mac OS X (10.3.9)

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