Repairing a Damaged / Corrupt .sparsebundle

After spending a couple days searching around the internet for anyone having a similar problem and coming up almost empty handed, I've decided to make a post and see if anyone can help me.
I made a Time Machine backup to an external drive back in November, November 11th to be exact (not that it matters). While all was fine and good, in the end I decided to not use Time Machine and delete the backup sparse bundle. Fast forward a bit to December 4th. It's been a month and I get on the train in the morning like I do every day, and open my Macbook - I'm greeted with a black screen; I reboot and get the dreaded 'folder with question mark' icon on boot. My MacBook's hard drive has died.
I tried all sorts of restoration tools on the drive, and in the end decided that there was no way to get my data back, the drive won't even show as attached to a controller card in any machine I tried it on. Then I had an idea.. I remembered that I made and deleted a Time Machine backup a month earlier, and so I searched for some sort of undelete program. Long story a bit shorter, I was able to recover about 98% of the original sparse bundle file, with only 13 of the band files either damaged or missing entirely.
Unfortunately it seems the sparse bundle format is very intolerant to corruption, because even though the majority of the bundle is intact I can't mount it in OS X at all. I managed to find this thread: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=6028077 which helped me to get the sparse bundle detected using Mac data recovery software, but that leads me to my next issue..
When searching the drive for files using either Data Rescue II or TechTool Pro 4, it'll find the entirety of the directory structure in the sparse bundle, but whenever I try to recover files they're completely messed up. By messed up, I mean a jpeg file will show up with the correct filename, size, attributes, etc.. but the data will be from another file. For example, I might have a file named DCIM_002.jpg with a filesize of 42.2kb, and upon opening it in Preview it's "corrupt", when I open it in TextEdit I'll see for example, the contents of a XML file or a Readme file, even parts of another jpeg.
It seems like all the information is shifted around because of the missing or damaged band files.
Now using the aforementioned software, I can also do a recovery where it finds files by scavenging through the entire image and manually detecting file types, but this will result in a directory full of jpeg001.jpg jpeg002.jpg, jpeg003.jpg ... jpeg4012.jpg files, simply due to the large amount of pictures I had on the drive. The pictures aren't corrupt when I do this, but it'll take me months to restore my iPhoto library by this route - and that's just considering restoring my pictures, I still have other data I'd like to get back from this image.
So I'm asking you guys if anyone knows of a method to get my data back from a corrupt sparse bundle. Maybe there's something I haven't tried, maybe there's a way to rebuild the image and my brain is just fried from messing with this stuff for a couple days. (I just bought a hard drive btw, that's why the Macbook died in December, and I'm just now making a post about it). Quite possibly, there might be no way to do what I'm asking, and this is my payback for not backing up on a regular or even semi-regular basis. Either way, I'm still somewhat hopeful. =)
Thanks in advance to any who respond.

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Try asking on the the Using Mac OS X Leopard forum. You also might want to see if FileSalvage does a better job.
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They can be contacted using this link BT Care Team
They normally respond by phone or e-mail, within three working days, however you should get an immediate confirmation, with a tracking number.
There are some useful help pages here, for BT Broadband customers only, on my personal website.
BT Broadband customers - help with broadband, WiFi, networking, e-mail and phones.

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