Odd hyperlink behaviour in Firefox

I wonder if anyone else is experiencing problems with hyperlinks in webhelp running on Firefox?
I have created a new webhelp system - nothing clever such as merging - just 70 or so topics.The help contains hyperlinks to other topics in the webhelp - these are left to page default (the intention being that they should open and replace the current page).
I have published the help to my C drive and am running it from there. When I select a link to another topic, the target topic opens for a second, then the help jumps to the parent folder for that topic. I just tried another webhelp system that I created a week ago (and was fine then) and it shows the same behaviour.
When I do exactly the same in IE, it works as expected.
I'm using Robohelp 7, Firefox 3.6 (it was the same with Firefox 3.5.7 so I tried upgrading) and Vista (though I tried on a Mac and it's the same, so I've ruled out an operating system quirk).
I'm guessing this is down to a recent Firefox update...or have I just done something daft?

Well, curious indeed! It now seems to be fixed.
The sample file was fine, so that put paid to my Firefox ranting.
I was checking the generate settings for anything that might be relevant, and noticed that it was set to synch TOC automatically. I changed this to synch manually and published again - it worked fine in Firefox. I then set it back to synch automatically and generated again, and it is still fine.
I then repeated the above with an older webhelp system that was OK last week but not today, and it seems to have fixed that too.
Thus my highly technical conclusion is that the TOC got its knickers in a twist.
Many thanks for your help Peter - I now have the sample files in case of future turmoil...

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