It would be lovely if you just had to select "Import > Bookmarks" in Firefox, and a window popped up displaying the actual folder with all your previous Bookmarks in it, (hidden in the C Drive), and you just click on the set you want....Olay...sorted!!
...to easy...or what?.... ;)... ;D...!
You can do exactly that. Click Bookmarks > Organise Bookmarks.
Then click File > Import.
...trubble was...
There was only one option to "import from" in the "Import" Window in the previous Firefox 2...(where I lost my Bookmarks)....>>
...*Internet Explorer*...
...not from Firefox itself!...

(Bjorn described a complex way of retrieving them, which finally worked).
Paul...

Firefox 3 seems to me laid out differently...
