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

Michael Sanborn wrote:

> The prefs.js file in my original default profile does not contain my 
> settings, nor does the prefs.bak I found there either.

That's most likely the problem. I guess you restarted Mozilla after 
noticing the problem and that overwrote the backup file (prefs.bak) as well.

> I had never looked at the registry.dat file before, but that may be 
> the problem. There's a lot of repetition there. "C:\Program 
> Files\QuickTime\Plugins\npqtplugin2.dll" is repeated 66 times over a 
> 1.6 meg file. Is that normal? 

No, I don't think so.