Time Machine restore failure with FileVault

Hello,
I have a MacBook running 10.6.2. Previously I had FileVault enabled for my home directory, and my uid was 502.
Because of many problems, I was forced to rebuild this MacBook. I made sure to have a full and complete backup in Time Machine, then I rebuilt the notebook.
Now when I'm trying to do a restore, I navigate through the finder to /Volumes/Time\ Machine/Backups.backupdb/DATE/Users/userid I cannot open the .sparsebundle disk image. I get an error that states the disk format is not recognized.
How can I get my data back?
Thanks,
Tom

that's because of permissions issues. your UID now is 501 and it was 502. also, don't do anything with TM backups via finder. don't copy them via finder and don't try to open the sparse bundle from finder while it's on the TM drive. restore the sparse bundle to the main drive using TM interface (not by copying in finder) and then work with the restored sparse bundle. to eliminate permissions issues the easiest might be to do everything from root. http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1528 activate the root user, log in as root, restore the sparse bundle and try mounting it.

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