I can't migrate to my retina macbook pro because my backup disk user has file vault encryption

I did everything I was supposed to. Backed up my macbook pro to a bootable hard drive using Super Duper. I just got my new Retina MacBook Pro today and tried to use the Migration Assistant to transfer my data over and it says I can't transfer any data because I was using File Vault on my old machine. Now What???
File Vault has caused me nothing but problems since day one. I wish I never would have turned it on to begin with. It's like Hotel California. You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave.....ugh.

I was on the phone with apple support and figured out part of the problem. Super Duper created a disc image on my external HD that I needed to double click on AFTER booting up the MBP from the internal HD. This mounts the disc image, allowing me to access the data on the drive. I'm currently manually copying/pasting all my data from the File Vaulted partition to a second partition (that's not file vault protected). From there, I will try to use migration assistant to see if that does the trick...

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