Missing One Folder of Bookmarks

Suddenly, an entire folder of bookmarks is gone. All my other folders are there, just one is missing. I looked in Recycle Bin, and in other folders, in case I had accidentally dragged it....nothing. I haven't upgraded Firefox recently or done any kind of importing like they talked about in the FAQs. When I go to Organize Bookmarks and search, I can find the individual bookmarks from that folder, but it doesn't say where they are. I am using 3.6.6 with Win7. Thank you.

(Oh, haha, just found a much better way. See my other reply.)
So this does require editing the HTML File, but this tool makes it a breeze. It ensures all the syntax nesting, etc is properly setup, which is the hard part. If you have any trouble, give me a shout out and I'll make a screencast.
1. Export the bookmarks as an HTML File.
(google importing exporting bookmarks as html for instructions. This method will work for chrome and Firefox, haven't tested on Safari)
 
2. Open in Notepad and Save as new file Ex. MyBookmarkFolder.html (we'll need the original in a minute) 
3. Go back to your bookmarks in the browser. Copy the name of the folder you want to start at. Make sure it's exactly the same. 
 
4. Find that text in the file you have open in your text editor (Ctrl + F = Find) 
5. Delete Everything before that. 
6. Copy the file/folder you want to stop at (It doesn't have to be nested equally deep) 
7. Find and Delete Everything after. 
8. The Beautiful part. Go to this page, and paste everything in the top box and hit "run" 
http://ejohn.org/apps/htmlparser/ 
That will make sure all the syntax is properly setup so your browser can import it properly. 
9. One last step before import. The original file you exported at the very top it'll have stuff life 
<doctype />
< meta >< /meta >
< title >< / title >
Etc
 
Copy everything down to the very first < DL >(about 5-10 lines?) and paste that into your newly formatted file (make sure you don't have to < DL >'s in a row) 
At the very end of the file, make sure it ends with a </DL>
 Then you can import the file! 
Of just the bookmarks you selected

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