NT profile corrupt, now EFS files lost?

From: Tim166 (Tim166_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 02/23/05 

Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 06:35:02 -0800

My NT profile blew up on me yesterday and without me knowing it, My Documents
were all encrypted. I rebuilt that original account, but it will not decrypt
or access those files. I did a "cipher /k" command just to see and it came
back saying something like "I/O in use" and would not generate a new key. So
that account apparently can not generate a key and therefore can not decrypt
those files no matter what. Is there something that I can do here?