File vault: home folder is not located in the usual place...

All of a sudden I get this error when logging into a filevault protected account.
*The home folder for "XXXX" is not located in the usual place or cannot be accessed*
The message goes on to warn me that the folder could have been moved or deleted or is on an unavailable network volume.
I see that the sparsebundle is right where it should be. I tried searching this board, but I can't find anything threads discussing this error. So, none of the data is accessible. If it was a sparseimage I could just mount it under another user and get the data out, but I have no idea what to do to salvage a sparsebundle. Heck, I didn't even know they existed until 30 min ago.

I have had no luck in fixing this. I've tried mounting the sparsebundle from the finder, disk utility, and the terminal and get an "Operation not supported on socket" error.
opening the terminal while logged in to this account brings up a message along the lines of
no home directory in /Users/AccountName
Logging in with home = /
So I thought it may be a permissions problem and reset them to be read write for user group and others, but still can't login or mount the sparsebundle from another account.

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