Ubuntu Installation :: 9.10 - Record Your Encryption Passphrase

I installed ubuntu 9.10 to a fresh partition on a HD that already contains a windows xp. During the install I opted to Require my password to login and to decrypt my home folder, (don't ask why, I regret it already). The install went well, I think, but when it came to reboot time I wanted to check that I could start windows xp from the new grub boot loader. Windows started fine so I rebooted again to try my new install of ubuntu. Now the system seems to get stuck at the little spinning wheel icon. I tried to boot to recovery shell but after entering my name and password I get:
Unable to cd to '/home/myname'

I rebooted using live cd. And mounted the file system as root. Now I have chroot ed into the system but that's as far as my knowledge gets me. I have googled to find the next step but am not finding a clear answer. I have found this [URL]. And here I see I should have seen a screen entitled: Record your encryption passphrase. But I didn't get to that screen. So is there any elegant solution? or am I destined to wipe the install and start again? Perhaps this problem is connected to the bug mentioned here [URL]. Optional encrypted partitions must be marked bootwait in /etc/fstab

In addition to the above, users who have configured any encrypted partitions in /etc/crypttab to start at boot time (i.e., not using the noauto option) should make sure that the filesystems on these volumes are listed in /etc/fstab if they are not mounted at a standard system mountpoint. Failure to do this on a desktop system will lead to problems from the X server and cryptsetup trying to control the console at the same time. At best, this will prevent the user from seeing the passphrase prompt; at worst it will also cause the X server to spin and consume 100% CPU. (430496)

I'm not sure, my /home is not on a separate partition.
/etc/crypttab is empty
# <target name> <source device> <key file> <options>
/etc/fstab is
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
# Use 'blkid -o value -s UUID' to print the universally unique identifier
# for a device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name
# devices that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# / was on /dev/sda2 during installation
UUID=8e5f54dd-8d79-44da-9ddf-7f4e3bce2a64 / ext3 errors=remount-ro 0 1
# swap was on /dev/sda3 during installation
UUID=32bcb9fc-ff2b-4e37-a259-1bfabee7cee7 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0