Wife's User Account Won't Open!

Hello, my problem is this;
My user account and my son's user accounts both work fine - from login or fast switching we can enter our passwords and off we go. My wife's account will not open at all. The password is entered correctly, the screen goes blue and after a few seconds, returns to the login screen. Obviously the account is corrupt in some way. I thought perhaps I could delete her account, saving her home folder as a disk image and creating a new account for her. When I tried to save the home folder via the Delete Account window, I got an error message "Unable to delete the user account Clare (Wife's account name). An error occurred while backing up this user's home folder".
If I delete her account without saving her home folder, can I retrieve her documents using time machine?

Hello, this is the result from the terminal;
drwxr-xr-x 9 root admin 306 4 Mar 12:43 .
drwxrwxr-t 53 root admin 1870 22 Feb 11:24 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 0 1 Jul 2009 .localized
drwxrwx--- 3 root admin 102 4 Mar 10:53 Deleted Users
drwxrwxrwt 9 root wheel 306 26 Dec 11:28 Shared
drwxr-xr-x+ 12 clare staff 408 4 Mar 12:58 clare
drwxr-xrwx 9 clarepurves clarepurves 306 4 Mar 12:56 clarepurves
drwxr-xr-x@ 32 mp mp 1088 4 Mar 12:51 mp
drwxr-xr-x 16 samuelpurves samuelpurves 544 4 Mar 10:43 samuelpurves
clarepurves was the old corrupt account, clare the new one.

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