How to fix a broken Facebook plugin?

I have a weird problem which has plagued me since LR5 was released. I run two installations, both Windows 7, both 64-bit, one netbook (slow but ok on the road), one desktop (for serious work back home), both currently LR5.4.
The netbook installation publishes to Facebook just fine.
The desktop installation always gives an error "no Facebook album assigned" when publishing a new album.
In spite of this error, the album has been created on Facebook but is empty. If I delete the collection in LR5 (but not on FB) and redo it assigning the created FB album to the collection, I can then publish without errors.
Attempting to use 'Edit' on the collection (to assign the created FB album to it) results in a message about being unable to access something.
There's something a bit familiar about the error message, it's like ones I get when I mess up programming with SQLite (which is what LR uses for its catalog/database).
This weird behaviour occurs when both machines are using the same internet connection, so nothing to do with wifi, router, firewall etc.
It is as if something in the FB plugin on the desktop has got corrupted. A complete reinstall of LR5.3 failed to cure the problem, as did the recent upgrade to 5.4.
What the **** is going on. What file should I copy from the netbook to the desktop to replace a corrupted one?
Or, maybe, the FB part of the catalog (aka database) is corrupted.
Help needed, folks.
TIA
Bob

NetherWyndham wrote:
Just to complete the story. I reverted to the original .agprefs file (which was apparently giving an error before).
Publishing to FB now works as it should with the original preferences file!
Very interesting - thank you for that .
NetherWyndham wrote:
No it doesn't make sense to me but someone wiser about the innards of LR5.4 might understand why.
My .02 about it:
Probably having the reset prefs allowed something to happen which needed to happen (but the old prefs wouldn't allow). Once that had happened the old prefs were adequate.. I have no idea what that "something" would have been in this case, but being a developer who knows the kinds of logic that play sometimes, it's no big surprise .
Anyway, glad you are back in the saddle.. .
~R.

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