My bookmarks have all gone!

All my safari bookmarks have gone!
I'm using Safari 3.0.4 on OS X 10.4.11
I've checked /Library/Safari and the Bookmarks.plist file is still there, I opened it in textedit and my bookmarks are in it but for some reason Safari is not displaying them.
The same problem has appeared on my other mac, I assume that this has been propagated by .Mac
I imported the plist file and copied the imported bookmarks from the import folder to the original locations which appears to have resolved the issue but I would like to know why this happened in the first place.
Message was edited by: curium

Hi,
but I would like to know why this happened in the first place.
I think you've answered your own question:
The same problem has appeared on my other mac, I assume that this has been propagated by .Mac
It was probably caused by a fault in the .Mac syncing, rather than .Mac propagating a bad file.

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