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We run OS X Snow Leopard (10.6.8) with network accounts, home directories being mounted by AFP from a Snow Leopard server with attached XServe RAID.
Since 9.0.1 (possibly earlier) bookmark management has become impossible. Added bookmarks sometimes don't survive after logout/login. Delete bookmarks sometimes reappear.
A more elegant demonstration of the problem involves creating a new account. On the first run of Firefox, attempting to add a bookmark gives you an empty "Add Boomark" dialogue. "Show All Bookmarks" reveals that you have three bookmarks called "(no title)" that you can't edit or delete. It is impossible to add additional bookmarks.
I've tried delete and recreating profiles, and checking the places.sqlite file for corruption with no joy. This looks like a fundamental issue with the way Firefox deals with bookmarks.
Can anyone shed any light on this issue? I doubt if anyone is crazy enough to have a setup like ours, but any help would be appreciated.

That still sounds as there are access problems to the places.sqlite database file, so you need to check that out another time.
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Bookmarks_history_and_toolbar_buttons_not_working_-_Firefox

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