repairing config files

Through a wonderful (not really) snafu, my linux machine (Redhat 7.3, 
Mozilla 1.2b) was shut down improperly. After a fsck, there were a few 
"repaired" inodes on the filesystem. This left a couple of altered files 
in my ~/.mozilla/ directory. As a result, this one user account cannot 
see *any* menus under the "Edit/Preferences..." menu choice (no other 
user accounts are failing, just this one). The left half of the menu 
should be a tree type list of configurable categories, and the right 
side the actual adjustments available under that category. When opening 
that menu, the right side shows the "When Navigator starts up, display" 
default menu, but the left side tree is completely missing. The mail and 
newsgroup settings are fine. I can send/receive email fine. My prefs.js 
file is there, and if I change the home page startup in mozilla, the 
changes propagate to the prefs.js file...nothing seems to be missing in 
prefs.js. Which file holds the information that the left side of the 
browser window (the tree of configurable categories) uses to decide what 
to display?

The first of two "repaired" inodes contains what looks like a series of 
mailbox://some.url and hashed username or password values (sort of like 
"remembered" passwords for various web sites). The second of two 
"repaired" inodes contains what looks like address book preferences for 
individual persons, with several entries such as "business.jobtitle", 
"business.companyname", and "home.city", as well as the hashed 
password-like fields. BOTH of the dangling inode files start with a top 
line of "#2c", and have what looks like a line with only a "." in it to 
separate records.

How can I find out which file contains the list of editable preferences 
for the browser (the left half tree view in mozilla web browser 
preferences)?

D. Stimits, stimits AT attbi.com