HT201250 Lost important files on Time machine it is decrypting now.

I recently had to install OSX lion I screwed up something with bootcamp, I deleted the partition and then lost a hundred gigs of space on my harddrive that I really needed. Before I did a clean install, I backed up three times with in an hour with time machine. I checked to make sure everything was there which it was.
After the clean install I plugged in timemachine it asked me for a password I typed it in, it asked me to set up a new timemachine and I did with out encryption it also kepted my old backups so i restored all the folders I needed and left it to run over night, when I woke up my timemachine disk was decrypting and I thought nothing of it.
When i got to work I noticed that a bunch of files from the last two weeks were missing and half my music collection and a bunch of other files that I didn't need as much as the work files.
I noticed that I only had stuff from two weeks prior.
My downloads folder was up to day from what I had on tuesday and except my documents folder and my music folder.
When I got home checked my timemachine ever all those files are missing, I nearly passed out in fear knowing that I need this work files due by friday and I don't have time to recreate EVERYTHING.
I backed up on the 14th of January, and for some weird reason the files from that day that should be on my computer are not there either. Files I knew I had. Files that i could update intime for friday if they so happen to of been there.
It's almost like timemachine erased all those files I NEEDED just to **** me off.
Time machine is currently Decrypting the backup disk and it's at 35% which means it's going to take about 48 hours to get to finished based on the time it has taken to get this far.
I guess what I am freaking out about is not knowing if those files will be recovered once the timemachine has finished decrypting.
What's really strange is disk utiliy on the mac states the drive is open and not encrypted.
On the recovery HD it won't even let me look at the drive because it is locked.
diskutil cs list in terminal with lion shows this
Name:         T***************
    Sequence:     1
    Free Space:   0 B (0 B)
    |
    +-< Physical Volume 6**********************************************
    |   ----------------------------------------------------
    |   Index:    0
    |   Disk:     disk1s2
    |   Status:   Online
    |   Size:     2000054960128 B (2.0 TB)
    |
    +-> Logical Volume Family 0**********************************************
        Sequence:               19
        Encryption Status:      Unlocked
        Encryption Type:        None
        Encryption Context:     Present
        Conversion Status:      Converting
        Has Encrypted Extents: Yes
        Conversion Direction:   backward
        |
        +-> Logical Volume F**********************************************
            Disk:               disk2
            Status:             Online
            Sequence:           4
            Size (Total):       1999736188928 B (2.0 TB)
            Size (Converted):   692009828352 B (692.0 GB)
            Revertible:         Yes (unlock and decryption required)
            LV Name:            Time Machine
            Volume Name:        Time Machine
This does not update or change as the decryption process gets farther along.
Does anyone know if once the decryption process completes my files will magically appear?
What's weird is if I go into the time machine on the Tuesday jan 17th to look at the backuplog file. It says it's locked and I can't even copy it to my desktop and open it with out saying it's locked.
What is also weird the farther along the decryption process goes, it's elimination my three backups of Jan 17th I am only down to one now...
Really FREAKING OUT....

Factory reset the TC and redo the setup.. any time you change network the TC needs to be redone.

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