Deleted profile and firefox wont start (although it says it's running)

I was having a problem with firefox on my mac running osx 10.7.5 and the solution I read said my profile may be corrupt so I deleted it. Then I deleted firefox and reinstalled it. Now it says I am missing my profile and it won't start at all. I am writing this using another application as I can't get Firefox to run.
Thanks!

Hi shinyperson, 
maybe you should try starting the Profile Manager.
 This article nay be useful: 
[[Use the Profile Manager to create and remove Firefox profiles]]
 
Also, have a look at this page: 
[http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_Manager Profile Manager]

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