How to recover Safari bookmarks from a previous backup?

Hello,
After about six months, I had to do a complete factory restore to resolve a nasty 3G connectivity problem. The restore to factory settings was a pain but it worked. Most of my apps have desktop versions to store crucial data files, but I forgot to save my Safari bookmarks. Is there any way I can selectively go to the past backup data files and find my bookmark links? I don't want to restore to a past backup in case it reintroduces the same problem that messed up my 3G connectivity, though I am tempted.
I tried opening some of the data backups in textedit but of course all I could see was code.
Thanks for any help.
Jim

No, a backup and restore is either all or nothing. You can't selecte what to backup or to restore.
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