Closed Two Separate Instances of Firefox - Open Tabs and All Groups Lost

I had two instances of Firefox 16.0.2 open and closed both with the "X" box at the top of the window and shut down windows. When I opened Windows XP this morning I came up with only one of the two Firefox sessions with the tabs restored and lost all the groups I had created over the last year.
The original groups are important to me, the tabs less so.
I was able to recover previous versions of sessionstore.js from the profile directory for Firefox and have the several days prior of them.
I saw in other postings of similar nature that the information is in the sessionstore.bak or a previous deleted sessionstore.js. I've attempted to figure out the procedure for running scripts but I don't think I'm getting it. When I open sessionstore.bak in notepad I can see the links that were in the groups that I'd like back.
My questions are:
1). Can & how do I restore the groups? (I'm not understanding the procedures I saw in: http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?p=10768811&start=45)
2). Are the tabs gone? How do I restore them?
3). Is having two open Firefox windows a no-no for keeping groups and tabs remembered?
4). How do you backup groups so if things go south you can recover easily?
5). How many tabs can you safely have open in Firefox?
6). Any other hints or procedures I should know about.
Thanks!
Ron

Did you check if there are entries in History > Recently Closed Windows ?
App (pinned) tabs and Tab Groups (Panorama) are stored as part of the session data in the sessionstore.js file in the Firefox profile folder, so if you have a backup copy of a sessionstore.js that has those tabs then you need to check that.
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/sessionstore.js
If you close a window via the close X on the title bar then you only close that window and all pinned tabs and tab groups that you created in that window will be gone (each window has their own tab groups and pinned tabs).
Use "Firefox/File > Exit" (Mac: "Firefox > Quit"; Linux: "File > Quit") to close Firefox if you are currently doing that by clicking the close X on the title bar to make sure that you do not lose tab groups.

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