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Any initial incivility came from you as I was ever and always “merely being stative” (subtext: there is a difference between self-righteous crusading and being direct). It’s a normal reaction to fight what you don’t like to hear, like your own simple mistakes – such as interpreting me to have said a reboot solved the problem though I was quite evidently listing it as a precursor in case others might happen upon the same (subtext: do you ever listen?). Surely you can understand the desire to help others (subtext: Brutus). With that in mind, I’ve written this with a set of notes to guide you along the process of understanding meaning so that you can further help others in the future (subtext: I am cutting up the words and spoon feeding them to you; brrrrr here comes the airplane). The internet is a forum of information, for truth and idea-sharing (subtext: the internet is not for back-rubbing and salad-tossing ... at least not this portion, but I have links, if you want? Email me.). Revisiting each of my passages, there are two lines where a sensitive person may have been offended and none where a rational person would have been (subtext: O, snap!). Alas, this is a transaction of ideas, not of etiquette, where some ideas must be shot down (subtext: and some murdered). You’re “failure at communication”, as you’ve rightfully put it, is rather easy to solve, as each of your missteps has been due to a lack of taking the time to read and understand – like with the above failure (subtext: try basal readers such as the popular ‘See Spot Run’ by Dr. William S. Gray, or alternatively use your mind; “then” you can attempt to be syntoptical, like you actually have something to teach). Now that you’re aware of the problem, I hope you’re able to remedy it (subtext: wait, you don’t understand any of this...).

I’m merely being stative. If the statements sound harsh, it’s because the genuine answer to these ideas is harsh. Your feelings towards my supposed rudeness are placebo. I, and everyone, can only be grateful under condition of receiving benefits by very definition of the word, and as I haven’t, I’m not, nor could be. What I can be is appreciative and am, but for no other reason than that your intention is clear. In any case, and I say this not out of goodwill, but out of much preferred authenticity: by being generously honest – not rude, nor sarcastic, or exaggerative – but steadfastly truthful, I’m only doing what is, by necessity, rational and, as a fortunate byproduct, weeding out the sort of people who are least able to give me a veritable answer, that is, people who are offended by the truth.

On another note, the problem spontaneously fixed itself. As a precursor, the keyboard stopped working. So I restarted the computer and all the corrupt bookmarks were no longer there. I can’t recall an FF update, but in any case, ... FREEEDDDOOOMMM.

A unique solution is to use Flock, which is built on the FF codebase, to import the FF profile and bookmarks directly from the browser and not from a backup. The problem here is that, at least for me, it doubled everything and erased every date added, each tag, etc, etc, and all secondary data of the bookmarks.

I consider the problem still unsolved.

I mentioned in the original post: "Deleting the profile does not help. Reinstalling firefox does not help." "...nor any of the other methods mentioned in mozillaZine" meaning that I already attempted reinstalling, deleting the profile and transplanting the sqlite's. Hence, your second suggestion has been tried, Ex-. Moreover, Alfier's way is just another version of this, except in that he has access to HTML's. For myself, there is no possibility, things being as they are, to use an html file to restore past bookmarks, since firefox3 auto-exports exclusively in sqlite format, and I cannot manually export html's from the organizer, as stated.

Further:
Multiple setup files have been used to install FF, even though it would be an off chance that that should be the problem.
New installations work fine since my problem pertains only to the bookmark database being corrupt (and my comment about firefox being quirky shouldn't be interpreted as my being confused about the origin of the problem, which is the bookmarks database).
And I'm aware of the joys of infection. I, in fact, have each of those programs and Commodo, atm. I ran each, and more, defragged, refried, c-sectioned, carbon-dated everything... a supercalafragalistizillion times.
I have also, already ran firefox both by disabling add-on's and by running it in safe-mode, which I forgot to mention. The only relevant add-on being used is Foxmarks. And since the problem began, I installed Sq-lite manager, which I've yet to use.

And though I doubt the issue has to due with bad sectors on my hard drive, I will try a chkdsk to see if anything comes up.

Notes:
1. It is the bookmark database which is corrupted.
2. It is not a matter of infection.
3. MozillaZine solutions still don't work.

Update I (of a possible eschatological many): HTML templates are rebelling. Many sites which I visit frequently (and which I happen to have bookmarked) show up with only a barren white background and disordered text.

Firefox itself, not merely the bookmarks, appears now to be corrupt. I should say, the firefox profile I'm using is corrupt (a product of the way FF3 profiles interact with bookmarks no doubt).

I'm expecting e-Jesus to descend from my cloudy browser window and snatch up all the faithful bookmarks... before unleashing his zombie wrath.

Yes, tried it. Recall: "editing everything relatable to these bookmarks doesn't benefit me any", which would include editing the tags.

And their is no bizarre, nameless, unspecified, or otherwise odd looking tag in the tags column.

And more, there is no tag line in any of the corrupted bookmarks themselves - there is no location line, no description line, no keyword line, nothing shows when selecting said bookmarks in the Library except the name.

New question. Since this clearly isn't the right place, where can I actually Get Satisfaction?

Editing everything relatable to these bookmarks doesn't benefit me any, except, maybe, allow me the superficial pleasure of giving these rogues an existential crisis. Excellent.