Archive & Install: Lost bookmarks

Whenever I archive and installed Leopard onto my macbook pro, I seemed to loose my firefox and safari bookmarks, although my firefox was not lost itself.
Is there anyway to recover these?
Thanks in advance!

Recently, I lost all my Safari bookmarks when transferring data from my old iBook G4 to a MacBook Pro.
The iBook requires an Archive & Install because of a "kernel panic" as diagnosed by Apple Support. But before I do, I would like to recover those bookmarks.
I can find my Firefox bookmarks easy enough under library/Application/Support/Firefox/Profiles/d6f8tado.default/bookmarks.html
but for the life of me I can't locate the archived Safari bookmarks.
There is a file under library/safari called "bookmarks.plist" but I can only open it up as a wingdings text file. Am I close?
Please advise. Thanks.

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Glad to help.
I suspect your settings are in the folder named "Previous System" but Leopard simply did not migrate it. That's why I think a clone would be perfect. Unfortunately you did not clone Panther, so your only hope os that the settings are in that folder I mentioned.
Download a copy of CarbonCopy Cloner - it's free:
http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html
Then get an external Firewire drive like a LaCie. I have their 500GB quadro. Then using DU on Leopard, partition it so that your MBP files will fit in the smaller partition when you clone it.
The other partition is perfect for TimeMachine - that's the way I use it.
Now, using CarbonCopy, you clone your Leopard onto the smaller partition on the external drive. Takes anywhere from 1/2 hour to an hour. The LaCie has FW800 on it which makes things fly.
After you have cloned your MBP, restart it holding down the Option button and the external clone should show up as a bootable system. Select it and boot into it just to be sure.
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After you get Panther running again, use Finder to look into the archived folder on the Leopard clone and see if you can find your old stuff.
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Following the procedure at https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Lost+Bookmarks#Restoring_bookmark_backups restores the bookmarks folder saved *today*. . . after Firefox reverted to a *two year old file* and saved it over my existing one. (How do I know it's two years old? It has house search information from before my toddler's birth, that's how.)
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I can't find my lost bookmarks or add new ones

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Can't find older mail from archived install

I recently upgraded the OS on my iBook G4 to Tiger - and performed an archived install just to be safe. After installation was successful, most of my preferences transferred with the upgrade seamlessly (Calendar, Address Book items, bookmarks etc.)
But, when I opened Mail, although my mail server preferences transferred okay, I discovered that most of my earlier mail from the the last year or so is missing. And for most of the messages that are actually apearring in my inbox, Mail is saying "X Message has not been downloaded from the server. You need to take this account online in order to download it." But, I am online and I can retrieve and send mail just fine.
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Simple Upgrade saves everything. Your apps, settings, bookmarks...
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thanks for the quick reply nerowolfe, however, i have already deleted that folder and i still miss something between 5-10gb of space... is there any possibility that the a&i might have left some loose ends around my hd? any reason, or cause for anything like this?
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