FF4 awesome bar suggestions reset on launch - lost my old suggestions

I upgraded to FF4 last week and have my privacy set to "Never remember history". There are several sites that I visit on a regular basis (at least twice a day); my banking sites and my email accounts. Before I upgraded I used to be able to just type the first two or three letters of each site and the awesome bar would provide the site as the first suggestion. Now, however, I have to type almost the entire site address or bookmark name in order for it to show up as a suggestion, and by then it is usually the only suggestion available. I have tried tweaking the places.frecency.(stuff)Bonus in the about:config, I have tried limiting suggestions to only bookmarks, but I am still getting the same behavior. This is getting to be a bit irritating as I have grown accustomed to only having to type a couple of letters to get my site up. How do I force certain suggestions to be ranked higher so that I can regain the functionality I have grown to love?

Is that the only option?
Why would I have suggesed it if there were a simpler option that you didn't aready try without success?
I'm afraid I will lose even more information.
Did you read the support article I linked for you - specifically the part about backing up and restoring the backup?

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