Open tabs lost on exit after syncing

After selecting the new option to sync my settings with my new account, I selected to sync everything except for Passwords and History. But since then, Firefox does not save my open tabs, even though I selected that option. It does not appear to save them locally either.
Under Options -> General, I have "When Firefox starts: Show my windows and tabs from last time". I have tried restarting both Firefox and my PC (on which I just performed a fresh install of Win7 64-bit). Any new tabs I open are lost upon exiting. I did not sync my account prior to the Windows reinstall, and Firefox was preserving open tabs just fine after I had restored my profile following the reinstall. It was only after setting up the account syncing that this became an issue.

''cor-el [[#answer-694186|said]]''
<blockquote>
Note that about: is a protocol used to access special built-in pages.
You can open <b>about:</b> pages via the location/address bar.
You can find links to all about pages on the <b>about:about</b> page.
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Thanks. When I tried "about:synced-tabs" earlier, I got:
The address isn't valid
The URL is not valid and cannot be loaded.
Web addresses are usually written like http://www.example.com/
Make sure that you're using forward slashes (i.e. /).
I still get that error. However, some of the other about pages do work this time.
As for the about:sync-log, I was getting errors earlier today, but now it shows success. (Nothing has changed since this morning.) Sorry, don't know how to use pastebin.mozilla.org.
I did notice earlier that all the bookmarks in my bookmarks toolbar got corrupted, and I was forced to fix them manually by deleting everything and adding them back. I'm not sure if that's related. But, again, I only get an error why trying to look at about:synced-tabs.

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