Cannot import bookmarks file (file is neither JSON or HTML)

I recently reformatted my laptop with a friend (works in IT), and from what I remember, he saved the bookmarks through the "Import and Backup / Backup" functions.
When I went to import it back into Firefox, and I browsed to the location of the file, it was apparently not recognized, as it didn't show up in the folder I know it's in. While in this process, I also noticed that Firefox is either looking for a JSON or HTML file. When I looked at the backup file more closely, I noticed it doesn't have a file extension. When I looked at the properties of the file, it simply says "file". I went online looking for an online tool to help identify the file, and found TrID (http://mark0.net/onlinetrid.aspx/). When I ran it through this identification software all I got back was:
"The file seems to be plain text/ASCII. TrID is best suited to analyze binary files!"
As I see no option in Firefox to load this file type, I'm wondering what could have gone wrong during the back up process.
I was able to open the file in Excel (just a hunch because it "seemed" to be a text file according to the online file identification). The file did open, unusable of course, but at least it appears that the file isn't corrupt anyway.
Please could someone help me with this? I have all of my work search links in this backup, and it would be a ton of effort to recreate it all!
My info:
Windows XP Home, SP3
Firefox 14.0.1

Open that file again in a text program like Wordpad and post the first few lines of that text file here. If it appears to be one very long file without any line breaks, post the first 50 or so characters.

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