IMac G5 died and I am trying to access files from the HD via my PowerBook

My iMac G5 died- evidently because of a power supply issue. Was told it could be up to five business days for repairs but there are files on my hard drive I need access to this weekend....preferably today. Yes, I do backups but I do them once a week and, of course, it has been a week since my last and so I have several days worth of work on the computer I need.
I removed the hard drive from the iMac and hooked it up to my PowerBook. The drive mounted and I can click on the User folder and then see my user account. But when I click on that folder, the contents are empty. I have rebooted, while holding down the Option Key, on the PowerBook to try and boot to my now external iMac hard drive, but it didn't see it. Another problem might be because the iMac HD is encrypted. How can I log into the iMac HD and access a few of my files (via the PowerBook) so I can copy them to the PowerBook to work on them while the iMac is down?

If the G5 iMac's hard drive is still okay, you could pull the hard drive from the G5, put it in an external enclosure and hook that up to your G4 Powerbook.
Here is an example of an external HD enclosure:
http://eshop.macsales.com/item/OWC/MEFW934FWU2K/
Good luck.

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