Mozilla ATE My Bookmarks!

Hello,

After a power failure today my Mozilla 1.6 browser failed to come back
alive. It magically forgot it's proxy settings I fixed that by hand.

It also removed the Mozilla.org, Mozilla.zine, and Mozdev.org from the
line next to the "bookmarks" button on the line above the browser
window. This I can probably live without but would like to know hat
happened to it.

What really frosts me is that  my bookmarks seem to have reverted to
some time long ago (6-12 months ago) All of my bookmarks saved since
this point seem to have disappeared!

So, What happened to them? Can they be retrieved and if so how do I do
it? I went looking for the bookmark file in what should be my current
profile and found it and it had today's date on it but the information
in it was definitely old. One of the ones that I use regularly changed
about 9 months ago and this one now points to the old now wrong
address.  It appears that Mozilla lost it's brain and overwrote the
current bookmark file with an old one.

I would have almost expected this kind of behavior out of an 80's DOS
program. I lived through that nightmare. Programs that lost data for
users received such a drumming from the media and everyone concerned
that they either quickly mended their ways or were soon out of
business. After this episode I am quickly loosing my taste for the
Open Source Movement. As bad as Microsoft is I can't remember loosing
data because of a program crash.

Thanks,

Steve