How can I import old Safari bookmarks from a cache

I had a bit of data disaster when upgrading to Snow Leopard from Tiger. Lost my home directory, and now lost the backup too aaaaahhh.
An older backup has what looks like Safari bookmarks in /library/caches/metadata/safari/bookmarks
The files all end with a ".webbookmark" suffix
when opened in TextWrangler they appear as below:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>Name</key>
<string>Spanish Tortilla Recipe</string>
<key>URL</key>
<string>http://www.spanish-fiestas.com/recipes/tortilla.htm</string>
</dict>
</plist>
Can I import these into Safari somehow?

You could try pasting them into the current Bookmarks.plist and save with Textwrangler. Not sure if it will work but that may be all you can do. Run plutil after to check for errors via terminal. Relaunch Safari.
Current bookmarks:
User/Library/Safari/Bookmarks.plist

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