I deleted my profile (the whole thing!)--can't access Profile Mgr. It is not missing or there to be recovered. Uninstall/reinstall nor terminal commands help.

I deleted my profile. I've tried online things such as a)restarting computer b)deleting and reinstalling Firefox c)entering in command at Terminal : /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox-bin -profilemanager and even dropping off "- bin" as also suggested. There is not profile and no profile manager. I got into this mess as Firefox had continued to open up window after window and locking up so I could not even get to Preferences without windows burying it and computer locking. After inadvertently deleting my whole profile, I now install Firefox and it doesn't open saying that Firefox is currently open.
These were the links I checked out among a few others that said the same thing:
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_Manager#Mac_OS_X
http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/Basic%20Troubleshooting#w_7-reinstall-firefox

Can you open [http://osxdaily.com/2010/08/15/mac-task-manager/ Activity Monitor] and look any firefox processes or plugin-manager processes and force quit them all? You said Firefox doesn't open because there's a message saying that Firefox is currently open.
The main reason for that would be if a firefox process has been stuck in memory this entire time. Although I don't know how a running firefox process would survive a computer restart. So I'm stumped there. The parent.lock file is another file responsible for the "Firefox is currently open" message, you could try searching for it & erasing that as well.
The very last thing we could try is installing Firefox Portable. In most crazy cases like this, that gets Firefox up and running.
But it's stuck at Firefox version 4.0.1 which is super old.
<br> Link: http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/20395/portable-firefox
But I think you can use the update feature with Firefox 4.0.1 to upgrade to Firefox 12 within the portable application. Going to '''Help > About Firefox''' should auto check for a update and download it to Firefox Portable.

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