Importing profile from another copy of firefox

I have been working with your files regarding moving Firefox profiles between computers. The instructions listed leave a lot to be desired.
I want to move a profile from Firefox on a PC to Firefox on MacOS (SnowLeopard).
At this point, when I open Troubleshooting information, Show in Finder, there are now three files there. Two are default profiles, including the one I moved from the PC:
023itdk7.default - which is the folder I saved and moved from the PC;
a0ibrn2u.Me - which is the profile I set up according to what I thought the "Managing Your Profiles" and "Recovering important data from an old profile"was telling me to do; and
l2usuzu74.default (I don't know where this came from).
How do I invoke the one I moved from the PC; or get rid of the other two?
Why have I got so many?
Your instructions concerning individual actions are fine; but the general ghist of the whole activity leaves a lot to be desired.

The general gist is that the Profile name can't be changed on the Profile that you are transferring files into. You need to copy the '''contents''' of the old Profile into the new Profile folder, replacing the file that were in there.

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