Bookmarks bar is blank until I customize or show/hide another toolbar

Using Firefox 12 on our Windows 2008 Terminal Server (32 bit) its bookmarks bar is blank after each Firefox start. When I open the customize dialog in Firefox and close it (even without changes) or when I e. g. hide or show an other toolbar the bookmarks are shown as expected.
I tried a clean install of Firefox (no addons, no customizations, new user profile) but that did not change the behaviour of Firefox. The bookmarks are not shown in the bookmarks bar after Firefox is (re-) started. Any of the suggestions I found so far (deactivating/updating All-In-One-Sidebar, using safe mode) did not work.
Firefox 10 behaves as expected, using a new user profile or the one which had been used with Firefox 12 before. I have a Firefox 12 installation on local machines (Windows XP and Windows 7, 32 bit and 64 bit) which also works correctly.

Well, the background first.
We use Firefox as our default browser, having some policies in a "global" config file in the program folder as well as some "global" extensions centralized in a special folder. There are two main reasons for that:
* All users should have a default installation whereever they log on without worrying about configuration and extension installing even if they log on fort the first time.
* Firefox itself, the configuration including default profile and the extensions are centrally distributed independent from each other. Thus we can update the extensions or change configuration without touching the user profiles etc. using a software distribution system.
The default installation includes proxy configruation, default settings for extensions, home page, cache etc. Some configuration shall not be changed by the user, others may be changed temporarilly, others depend on the type of machine the user is using. The same way we use Firefox on our Terminal Server which is used by our colleages that are out on business.
However, on our TS there is a link to Firefox in the "all users" desktop folder so that everyone has the link on his or her desktop. And I have to mention that it is a german Windows 2008 TS. This is important to know, because the link points to "c:\programme\firefox\firefox.exe". Using this link I get the phenomenon described earlier. What I worked out by chance was that if I start Firefox using a link pointing to "c:\program files\firefox\firefox.exe" everything works fine, no problem at all.
This is repeatable and double checked by a colleague :-) and the solution is to change the link although I don not know the reason why this happens (it did not happen with Firefox 3.6.x which we used before on the TS).
Regards

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