Filevault wont turn off.

i have had my computer since last christmas and somehow my filevault got turned on. i have had some difficulties resulting from this, and i am hoping to turn it off. when i go to turn it off, it says that there was an error decrypting. there is enough room on the hard drive for filevault to "unravel" everything. i called apple support and they said to hold down some key and do something that way using the start up disc, but i had misplaced it. now that i have found it again, my applecare or whatever is up so i can only use these online forums. please help!!
-HunterK

Hi HunterK,
Do you have the administrative password? How big is your home folder? Whatever the size of your home folder is, you need to have to have the same amount of free space on your hard drive. Lets say your home folder is 1Gb, then you need at least 1Gb of free space on your hard drive. Try going to System Preferences > Security > Turn off FileVault > Enter the login password > click Continue > You should see a message come up, click Turn off FileVault. Do you have the "master password"?
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