Getting hold of hidden folder on defective drive

Hi !
I'm in a quite desparate situation – my MacBook Pro 15" had crash with InDesign with a subsequent bad restart, and ended up not beeing able to complete a reboot at all. It goes through the restart process until a pale white progress bar goes 8% of the way, then everything shuts down.
I can't reinstall the system, and disk utility can't help me at all. So I'm apparently stuck with the sole option to retrieve data via a firewire transport setup.
Now my problem is, that one of the really important folders that I need to retrieve, is that of my email-app Postbox. It is supposed to reside in the library/application support folder, but I can't see it. I have tried to copy the entire application support folder, but I get an error message saying that I do not have sufficient access privileges to perform the task.
The disk appears to be difficult to modify (fix privileges and so on).
Does anyone have an idea for a solution? I'd really like to get hold of my Postbox email folder !
Kind regards, Pino

just use an app that will make all invisible files visible and locate and copy that folder. Once done you can make the files invisible again. Be sure not to move or delete any files other than the folder you're interested in.
Some of the files that can do that are:
iVisible 2.0.1
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