Firefox is consuming too much of my limited profile space

I have installed Firefox 4 on my company laptop running on Windows XP. The profile space is limited by the Adminstrator to 30MB. Nice, so I can logon to the network from anywhere without excessive waiting time. Unfortunately, Firefox 4, or places.sqlite to be more precise, consumes 80-90% of that profile space easily. Now I don't need my bookmarks to be stored in my profile, but this seems all automatic and unchangeable. Does anyone know a solution to:
a) Put places.sqlite and the rest of the .sqlite files somewhere else?
or
b) Keep the size of places.sqlite under control? I can vacuum the database, but next time I open Firefox 4 it is back up to 10MB, which will immediately make my profile oversize.
Thanks for any help!
Ronald van Eekelen

I had exactly the same problem.
I found a way to bypass that here: http://www.tweakguides.com/Firefox_9.html.
You just have to execute firefox.exe -profilemanager in DOS, create a new profile and you can browse to select a profile folder. Delete the older one named "default" and you're good to go no more problem with the infamous sqlplaces :-D.

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