Help. Accidentally deleted filevault sparsebundle image..

Hi all,
I did an incredibly stupid thing today. I went an deleted (dragged to the trash, but did not empty it) the filevault sparse bundle image in my user directory and went and shutdown my Macbook. After a reboot, I could not log in.
Is there a way to recover from this situation?
If you want to know how I got myself in this mess, I was trying to make space on my macbook and found a 44GB file. I didn't know what it was and just tried to drag it to the trash to see if anything bad would happen. After moving to trash, things seemed ok, so I shutdown the machine for a while. So that's how it happened. Now I'm kicking myself.
Thanks for any help.
Nik.

Nik Hisham wrote:
Hi VK,
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.
glad you've fixed it.
It was a good thing I didn't empty the trash after moving the image there.
actually you would not have been able to empty trash because the disk image was in use at the moment.
Nik.

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