FileVault and sparsebundle image

Recently one of our employees was fired and I was provided their MacBook to try and obtain their data. Since they are no longer an employee, they are not willing to cooperate with me.
The Mac originally had Leopard on it and was eventually upgraded to Snow Leopard but I presume everything stayed in tact with their file system as they continued to use the machine for several months. Under Users/username they have a .sparsbundle image that is encrypted due to FileVaulting.
What I have done/attempted:
I reset the Master Password on the computer and can login as root.
I obtained ther GeneratedUID and their Hash
I have looked at the username.plist file as well
I located the .sparsebundle image and I've attempted to open it via Disk Utility but it is asking for the user's password.
I read that I should delete the FileValutMaster.* files from the keychain
I'm working with the John Ripper program attempting to decrypt the hash so that I can get the user's password. That has been running for 18 hours so far with no luck.
Any assistance would be great as this is not something that I've done before. I'd be more than happy to provide any information necessary so that this task can be completed.
their password hint is: fubar

I'll be following this with interest, I've read about how to attempt it, but have not ever seen it done, sorry I can't help.

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Thank you for pointing me in the right direction. I logged in as Root, opened a Terminal window and found the sparsebundle image sitting in /.Trashes. I just did a mv to move it back to my user directory. I was able to immediately log back on using my user id.
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