Recovering files from an inprogress sparse bundle?

Brief tale of woe:
I had an unfortunate experience with a Time Capsule backup that TM reported as successfully completed but which upon inspection turns out to be inprogress, aka incomplete. This may have been due to a TC hardware defect, a dying MacBook HD or problems caused by VMWare fusion. Regardless the TC is now dissected (long but irrelevant story) and the sparsebundle was copied block-by-block to a different EHD. DiskUtility gives it a clean bill of health. The sparsebundle is just over 66 gig in size, which is about right.
Here's the question -- an inprogress sparsebundle won't mount properly, so how can I extract any files from the bands? Happy to use third-party tools if necessary or even send it out for data recovery if necessary.
Migration Assistant has been no help -- when it gets to the 'select your disk' screen it just hangs. Console message is
11/5/10 9:27:44 AM Migration Assistant[14291] Couldn't get a connection to the migrateTool after 1 attempt.
All suggestions as to how to salvage anything out of my 66+ gig sparsebundle would be greatly appreciated.

Martin's Desired Alias wrote:
Migration Assistant has been no help
No, since it's not a complete backup, the "Star Wars" display, Setup Assistant, Migration Assistant, and Restore your System from Backup will all just ignore it.
There is no automated, system-supplied way to deal with a partial (ie, failed) backup.
You should be able to right-click the "In.Progress" file and select +Show Package Contents.+ Inside the package will be a couple of folders with code names (UUIDs); inside one of them should be a set of folders & files just like on your Mac.
You may be able to move/copy those files with some success, but it will be quite tedious.
You may have permissions problems with them, too.
Applications will be difficult; simple ones that were installed by dropping into the Applications folder should be ok. Complex apps that come with their own installers likely put other files in other places, including your system folders, so unless you know what and where all of them are, and copy them, too, the app probably won't work well, if at all. Reinstall those from their original discs.
Make an extra-large pot of coffee, and good luck!

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