Invisible bookmarks

I'm using FF 26.0 under Windows 7 SP1. Due to a HD crash, I've had to reinstall Windows and Firefox. I copied across the following files from my old FF profile, backed up on an external HD, to the new FF profile:
places.sqlite
key3.db
signons.sqlite
My problem is that I can't see any of the bookmarks using Ctrl-B or Show all Bookmarks - the list is empty. The unusual thing is that the bookmarks are definitely there, because if I start typing a bookmark name in the address bar the bookmark URL will appear. So can anyone tell me why this is happening, and how I can view and edit my bookmarks list again?
I've reset FF, overwritten the localstore.rdf in case the new version was corrupt, and searched for "bookmarks missing" and similar.
This is sort of related to the questions I've already asked about synching to one machine, which I think are visible under my profile.
Cheers
Fred
www.fredriley.org.uk

Hi Fred, I use the SQLite Manager extension to peer into Firefox's SQLite databases. If you find a database diagram or other documentation showing the purpose of all those fields and the relationship of the tables, I'd love to see it.

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While using Firefox as of late, I've noticed a few things out of place.
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