Time machine and filevault don't work together

Let me get this straight....my files can either be safe from being stolen if I lose my laptop OR they can be safe from being lost when my hard drive dies, but they can't be safe from both at once?
Seriously, FileVault is a great feature and so is Time Machine. Maybe someone at Apple can help them learn to live together?

This is a major screw-up on Apple’s part. Interesting that I just realized courtesy of MacIntouch that TM was NOT backing up my FileVaulted home folder. I use my MacBook Pro probably like most people. When I’m at home I’m behind a firewall. I leave the computer connected to my home network and I leave it open and on. I don’t log out ever! For security I do use the FileVault feature and I don’t use distant connections to my home network.
There should be an option for TM to back up the open file vault directory just as if, frankly, someone would have access to it if they picked up my open computer and walked off with it. The owner has to have physical control of the computer. FileVault works if the computer is asleep and the wake log-on is enabled or if the computer is restarted. However, if my filevault is open and being used by me it should be available for a TM back-up.
Interesting that Retrospect, with all its faults and promises of vaporware to come, WILL back up my MacBook FileVault.
Apple should provide some type of option for this situation. On the fly decoding of the open FileVault directory so as to avoid a repeated total backup of the whole thing is the answer. It is the owner’s responsibility to keep the TM volume secure.

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A lot of people seem to switch to Leopard because of Time Machine, but according to the reports, the user experience has got nothing to do with reliability. So let me describe what is going on here concerning Time Machine.
I am using the German Version of Moc OS X Leopard with all recent software updates installed. I will try my best to translate the messages in the user interface. As mentioned above, I work in a user account that is encrypted wih FileVault. For Time Machine I have a 320 GB USB Harddrive from Lacie. Since I am having a MacBookPro, the USB-drive gets connected when I am at home, which means 2 or 3 times a week.
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4.) When I open the backup drive in the Finder now, I can no longer find the encrypted sparsebundle; instead there is a new folder next to the "Macintosh HD" folder, that holds all the contents of my home directory unencrypted... but: its content is out of date!
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