Re: profile corrupted - copying files to new profile didn't help

Michael Sanborn wrote:

> When I launched Mozilla (1.2 on XP) this morning, my browser went to 
> mozilla.org instead of my home page, and the mail client wanted to 
> create a new default profile for me. No access to my mail folders, 
> although I see them in my Application Date\Mozilla\Profiles directories.
> Does anyone have any alternate solutions? It's fairly urgent.

1. Copy your whole profile (minus emails and cache), in a state as early 
as possible after the problem appeared, to a safe location, so that we 
can examine it later, if needed, to find the bug.
2. Copy the prefs.js from the above profile to your newly created one 
and inspect it for any malformity and if your settings (homepage, email 
accounts) are listed there.

The problem should be prefs.js, otherwise maybe your Mozilla registry.