Problem with encrypted Time Machine

First of all: forgive me for my english.....
I installed Lion a month ago and I encryped the partiton on an external Hard Drive that I use for Time Machine (TM). The HD has three partitions:
1) for TM;
2) a copy of the Macintosh HD made with Carbon Copy Cloner;
3) an NTFS partition with some Windows data.
For the first month everything works good but a week ago I pluged in my HD and it requested me the password for the encrypted volume (TM)...I typed it in but it said that it wasn't correct....so I can no more open my backups...
Now every time I connect the external HD there is a message that say "The disk you inserted was not readable by this computer" with three oprions "Inizialize, ignore, eject".
After that it request me the password but it say that is not correct...
In the Partition menu of Utility Disk there is this message: "Disk Utility cannot modify this disk because it contains CoreStorage physical volumes. Use command line diskutilinstead".
Can anyone helps me??

Call Applecare (800-275-2273), but I think you may have lost access to that drive.

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