Restoring a user directory encrypted with FileVault

The hard drive on my PowerBook (which was running Tiger) was hosed last week. "Luckily", I had been making regular backups of the entire hard drive onto a Firewire drive.
Meanwhile, I've got a spanking new iMac here (running Leopard). I plugged in the backup drive hoping to restore all my precious files, only to discover that everything seems accessible EXCEPT the user directory, which was encrypted with FileVault. In Finder, it looks like an alias that's not pointing to anything.
Now I'm panicking. It looks like everything is there, in that the directory containing the encrypted user directory takes up about as much space as I'd expect it to. I can access everything off the hard drive that's not encrypted. But all the stuff that's actually important to me is inaccessible.
If I can't recover this directory, I'm screwed. But I have no idea where to start. Can anyone help? Thanks in advance (and more later if you help!)

Glad you recovered it!
As I recall, the Filevault encrypted sparseimage is normally kept in /HD/Users/username, but when you are logged into that account the username folder is temporarily renamed .username (with a leading period) so as to made invisible, and a temporary alias called username is created in Users instead.
If so, then it sounds from your description of your files as if you may have been logged into the Filevault account when you made the backup clone. I don't know if you plan to continue to use Filevault in the future, but if so, here is a tip from SuperDuper's documentation:
If you’re using FileVault, your home folder and all its data is stored in a single, large file that’s open and active when you’re logged in. Because of this, you should create a non-FileVault account for use with SuperDuper! Then, log out of your FileVaulted account, into this new account, and run SuperDuper! from there. This ensures that the special FileVault volume is put away and backed up cleanly.
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