I somehow lost my "Tools and reference" bookmarks on my imac-snow leopard. I still have them on my Macbook Pro. Can I somehow traansfer them?

I still have the "Tool & reference" bookmarks on my Macbook pro--can I somehow transfer them? Or is there some secret place on the imac where they may be hidden.?

In Safari, Export Bookmarks creates a HTML file of your entire bookmark settings.
Click the Export Bookmarks menu and answer the navigation prompt on where you want to place the file (same as any save file operation).  It will then create a HTML file in that location by the name you specified.
The way you use that file is with the Safari Import Bookmarks menu.  You click it and it will ask where the bookmarks html file is.  Navigate to it and safari will import the entire list of bookmarks.
You probably wouldn't want to do this in the same Safari for the same user because what's the point? But you can move that file to another user account (differnet machine for example) and import the file there to have all those bookmarks in that account's safari.
I believe safari imported bookmarks into a sub-list in the bookmarks menu.  That means you may still have to move bookmarks around to get them to show exactly like you want.  Select the Show All Bookmarks menu and a window will come up showing your bookmarks.  You can then drag items and folders around to the way you want them presented.

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