One FileVault won't open, programs on other account won't start

My fiancee has had problems on her 2006-era MacBook Pro 15". She has FileVault on her primary account, and one other administrator account she doesn't use. Recently, the computer froze while running, and upon reboot it couldn't load up the primary account (with FileVault). It said something about a read/write error.
This isn't the first time this has happened - we had to use DiskWarrior to fix that same FileVault a couple months back - so I knew the drill enough to load up the other admin account to try to repair things. But this time, some programs (including DiskWarrior and Safari) wouldn't run properly from that other account: they'd show a bouncing icon in the dock for a couple minutes and then shut down with no error message.
I tried running Disk Utility to scan the hard drive, but it freezes the whole computer (meaning I can't even force-quit the program) every time I try.
I'm thinking the hard drive is in pretty bad shape and probably needs to be replaced. Fair enough. But is there any way to salvage some documents from the FileVault-protected account? I have the password and everything for it, but it won't open, and I can't get DiskWarrior or Disk Utility to repair it from the other admin account.

I'm not sure there's a way to recover those files unless you can log into the account. Perhaps the whole drive can be cloned onto an external HDD (e.g. with Carbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper) and then the account can be accessed.
FYI, I strongly recommend against using FileFault (intentional misspelling). Since all of the data are stored in a single, large disk image, any file directory issue locks the whole thing up, as you have found.
Once you get things back to normal (one way or another), instead of FileVault, I'd recommend creating a secure disk image (using Disk Utility) and storing sensitive data there. Instructions for that are in this linked kbase article. It's smaller, therefore less likely (statistically) to be affected by directory damage, and personally I don't see the need to encrypt the entire home folder (why encrypt iTunes music, for example).

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