File Vault Won't Decrypt - operation fails in final minutes

I'm trying to turn off file vault. File vault said I didn't have enough room on my hard drive so I followed Apple's instructions to go into safe mode, make a sparse disk image on an ext drive and then drag and drop the encrypted home folder into the disk image. At the last moment I get an error code -50 which says the operation couldn't be completed b/c of an unexpected error. I've retried this on other ext. drives, USB2 and FW just to eliminate some variables. They all failed in a similar manner
Next I cloned the entire HD to the ext. Then I booted from the ext and tried to turn off file vault that way. The clone went fine, and I went through the steps to turn off file vault. File vault started to unencrypt then with about 10 min until finished I get the same -50 error.
Is there anything left to do here? Is there some file that is tripping the process up?

Try these:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=1872713
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=25773
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301416
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303617
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305454
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.4/en/mh1908.html
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.4/en/mh1877.html
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1166826&tstart=0
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20050326041757989

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