salvaging a corrupt stickies file. possible?

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the Stickies file on my daughter's G4 iBook seems to have corrupted. When I open the StickiesDatabase file in text edit, there is only gobble-d-gook, no data or text mixed in between. I've tried creating a new pref file, copying over the StickiesDatabase file to a new location, etc. the problem is that Stickies quits whenever you try to open it. I even created another user on the same machine and there Stickies opens fine. So I can only conclude that the file is corrupted. Any way of getting the data back?