After auto-upgrade Firefox cannot open my profile and won't start.

I am running Firefox in a corporate environment. OS is Windows 7. Whenever an auto-upgrade is pushed out by Firefox, I get a message telling me that "firefox profile cannot be loaded it may be missing or inaccessible". Indeed, the latter is the case. My profile is no longer accessible to me. I am no longer its owner, according to Windows. Looking at the directory C:\Users\{my userid}\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\5a5finmq.default, I see that it's owner displays as "Unable to display current owner." and I am frozen out of Firefox. Examining this folder in Windows Explorer I cannot read, write, delete or do anything with what was once my profile.
Please don't tell me how to recreate my profile. This is a BUG and it needs to be fixed. I have a copy of an old profile and I am able to access it and transfer it into my profile directory and get up and running. BUT I SHOULDN'T HAVE TO DO THIS EVERY TIME FIREFOX DECIDES TO UPGRADE ITSELF. Why is Firefox mangling the ownership of my profile and when will this bug be fixed. I have a lot of important information in my profile and it's a pain to recreate this from scratch every time this happens.

HI stevecoh1,
I am sorry to hear that the auto update to Firefox on your NTFS file system/corporate environment did not preserve the user profile. I recommend using firefox sync and using a device you have admin rights to preserve the user profile.
If you have access to a previous version of the profile it can be added to the profile folder that is missing in the update. Please reference these steps to restore the old profile.
[http://kb.mozillazine.org/Recovering_a_missing_profile]
[[Back up and restore information in Firefox profiles]]
[[Fix "The bookmarks and history system will not be functional" error message]]
I am hoping that the sqllite file is not locked on the user directory, though this will vary on the policy of the AD of your corporate environment. [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=551436] If the file is locked and this is consistent this bug does need confirming.
I hope this helps, please post back let us know if it did or did not, we are happy to help.

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