Firefox will only open once

I can run Firefox once per profile & then it won't start again. I have to make a new profile to get it to open again. Alternatively, I can start Safe Mode and then exit after the prompt with the options to enter Safe Mode. After that I can start Firefox normally, but only once. Then I have to either create a new profile or get the prompt to enter Safe Mode. Without the Safe Mode trick profiles can only be used once before Firefox fails to start again. I already tried to treat this as an add-on problem, which is when I discovered that it was the fact that I ran Safe Mode, rather than because I disabled any add-ons, that made the difference. I have also uninstalled and reinstalled Firefox more than once.
== This happened ==
Every time Firefox opened
== This is a relatively new build

Do you get any error messages if you try to start Firefox a second time?
Can you restart Firefox with that same profile after a reboot of the computer?

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Version: 3.6.3 - Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100401 Firefox/3.6.3
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