Firefox Sync - everything syncs except bookmarks

FF 5 and now 6. OS X. I have approximately 1,100 bookmarks.
Everything syncs except my bookmarks.
Toggled bookmarks on/off in FF sync prefs.
Reset sync 2 times for good measure.
Been working to clean up my bookmarks hoping to get the potentially malformed URI causing this (this seems to be the consensus from my searches as to why this is happening).
Enabled merge debug logging and see a repeating message there indicating a problem. Looked for solutions for this and found some discussion, but nothing has yet worked.
...default/weave/logs/verbose-log.txt
1314041499212 Engine.Bookmarks WARN Error creating record: this._lazyMap is not a function JS Stack trace: _createRecord("ZirM2o4hF1mg")@bookmarks.js:413 < SyncEngine__uploadOutgoing()@engines.js:948 < SyncEngine__sync()@engines.js:1019 < wrappedSync(null)@bookmarks.js:255 < _sync()@bookmarks.js:261 < WrappedNotify()@util.js:169 < Engine_sync()@engines.js:390 < WeaveSvc__syncEngine([object Object])@service.js:1953 < ()@service.js:1833 < WrappedNotify()@util.js:169 < WrappedLock()@util.js:137 < _lockedSync()@service.js:1735 < ()@service.js:1726 < WrappedCatch()@util.js:111 < sync(false)@service.js:1707 < ([object Object])@service.js:594 < notify([object XPCWrappedNative_NoHelper])@util.js:1011
If I can avoid it, I'd rather not share my bookmarks for analysis. If a malformed URI is likely the culprit, is there a site/tool I can use to analyze them myself?
Thanks - Mike

Well what do you know. An hour or so after posing this question here for help, I was continuing to poke around and found this FF extension which identified a single malformed URI and allowed my bookmarks to sync!
Checkplaces by Andy Halford
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/checkplaces/
This tool will analyze your bookmarks (among lots of other things). It immediately told me which single bookmark was malformed. It let me delete it from it's report with ease. A subsequent FF sync run ran without a hitch.
Now off to donate to this fella. :)

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