I lost the bookmarks drop-down on the menu bar

== Issue
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I have a problem with my bookmarks, cookies, history or settings
== Description
==
I have Firefox 3.5.10. Somehow, I managed to click on "hide this folder?" while I was trying to organize my bookmarks, and now I can't get the folder back onto the menu bar. I am able to access them via the sidebar, but I prefer the drop-down menu.
I have already tried View>Toolbars>Customize. There is no icon for "bookmarks" for me to add; there doesn't appear to be any way to add/delete menu bar items. Besides, I really don't want to restore the default after having customized it.
Any clue????
== Troubleshooting information
==
Scrapbook, Colorful Tabs, Adblock Plus, Roboform, Better GCal, Delicious, Diigo, Google, Personas, Scrapbook, Tree-style Tab, Zotero, Wired Marker
== Firefox version
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3.5.3
== Operating system
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Windows Vista
== User Agent
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Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.1.3) Gecko/20090824 Firefox/3.5.3 GTB6 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729) FBSMTWB
== Plugins installed
==
*-Default Plug-in
*The QuickTime Plugin allows you to view a wide variety of multimedia content in Web pages. For more information, visit the QuickTime Web site.
*Adobe Shockwave for Director Netscape plug-in, version 11.0
*1.7.0069.2
*Adobe PDF Plug-In For Firefox and Netscape
*np-mswmp
*Provides additional functionality on Facebook. See our web site for details.
*Shockwave Flash 10.0 r32
*iTunes Detector Plug-in
*DivX Web Player version 2.0.2.39
*GEPlugin
*Picasa plugin
*4.0.50524.0
*Office Live Update v1.3
*Google Updater pluginhttp://pack.google.com/
*Google Update
*Next Generation Java Plug-in 1.6.0_18 for Mozilla browsers

Please help with this. I see that https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/questions/827504 is exactly the same issue. I have also seen the issue reported when I did a Google search on display problems. it's obvioulsy not a one-off so I hope someone can assist.
Johhno again

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''bmail wrote:''
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''bmail wrote:''
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