Filevaulted account self destructed!

This is very strange, but today I rebooted and my user account vanished. I had a filevaulted account and since time machine won't back it up unless you logout I did a restart and went for supper. I saw the backup starting, but when I got back later I could no longer login. I had to go through a pretty long process to get back working, I won't describe it here, but it's on my blog if you want to read the whole story, see link at the end of this post.
What I want to know is how my account could self destruct like that? Will this happen again? I am now better prepared for this but it was very inconvenient and I lost a whole evenings work restoring instead of doing what I had planned.
Blog/Story is at http://hal-lightwood.blogspot.com/2011/01/restoring-your-file-vaulted-account-in .html

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MORE ERRORS, MORE PROBLEMS, BIGGER HEADACHE, _*NO ANSWERS!!!!!!!!!*_
There were problems downloading some purchased items.
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There was a problem downloading “Before I Self Destruct (Deluxe Version) - iTunes LP - Supplemental Video #2 / Before I Self Destruct (Deluxe Version) / 50 Cent”. An unknown error occurred (8003).
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There was a problem downloading “Before I Self Destruct (Deluxe Version) - iTunes LP - Supplemental Video #4 / Before I Self Destruct (Deluxe Version) / 50 Cent”. An unknown error occurred (8003).
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Please check that the connection to the network is active and try again.

I feel you. Same here. I've spoken with someone and emailed twice. The first excuse I received was there was a server overload with everyone trying to download because it hadn't been released yet. Now it's two weeks later, and I'm being told to email them again. Plus I was charged twice also.

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If you read my other post, I was getting err 5000 on the LP content of 50 Cent Before I Self Destruct,,,,,,Now i am getting this--
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There was a problem downloading “Before I Self Destruct (Deluxe Version) - iTunes LP / Before I Self Destruct (Deluxe Version) / 50 Cent”. An unknown error occurred (-42003).
Please check that the connection to the network is active and try again."
*SOMEONE PLEASE HELP ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!*

I feel you. Same here. I've spoken with someone and emailed twice. The first excuse I received was there was a server overload with everyone trying to download because it hadn't been released yet. Now it's two weeks later, and I'm being told to email them again. Plus I was charged twice also.

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ITunes LP: "Before I Self Destruct" by 50 Cent

hey I need help with something. Did anyone get 50 Cent's new album with the itunes lp?My problem is that i went into the package contents of the itunes lp file to take out the 2 movie files to i could put them into the actual movies section of itunes and not in the lp cuz the lp can't be played on my ipod. so my problem is that i moved the files not copied them and renamed them in itunes before i realized i had moved them not copied them. I then copied them and put them in the lp file, but the problem is that i had renamed them, so now when i go to play them in itunes lp, it won't play because its like looking for the file video named something and it can't find it because its renamed.
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ok so i just figured it out
step 1 double click on the HD icon go to the "places" section on the left hand side click on "Music".
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step 3 copy that file make sure you put .MP4 at the end of the title once you do that it will automatically break down that file into photos and the original mp4 videos just drag those file into your ipod
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Need help to locate the magic trigger.
During the happy days of Tiger I was able to create a local user account with filevault enabled using a simple script. This did result in a sparsefile being created that worked just like the one the User account creation tool created.
No moving forward to Leopard I'm facing the challenge of moving away from sparsefile and into the realm of sparsebundle. I can create the filevault, access it and dump data into it, the freshly created user can log in to the system using the provided password. But the second that the user are trying to change the password, he/she gets a 'You cannot change your password to the password you entered'. The more detailed description tells me that it is due to the account using filevault. The suggestion is to turn filevault off and on again.
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Hi V.K.
sorry about not posting a sample script. I'w now spend some time getting the pieces together from the large python script that are creating the user account. So here it is.
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ditto -rsrcFork '/System/Library/User Template/English.lproj/' /mnt/work
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As for not using the gui - well I'm at first not the author of the script, just the one fixing the issue with it in combination with SPARSEBUNDLE. Second I have no intention of making the Apple script counterpart to drive the UI user creation interface. The reason for the script in the first place is that we are not running a OD, nor binding the units to AD and do not have any plans in deploying MCX at this point. User accounts are created locally on the unit as part of a automated prep scrip, but if there are anyone that has a Apple script that will create the account and enable SPARSEBUNDLE max size - I'm all ears.

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