Open URLs in Tbird with Firefox

Using thunderbird-0.5 and firefox-0.8.1, both packages installed with pacman. When I click on a URL in an email, Thunderbird pops up a dialog asking what application I want to use to open it. I navigated to /opt/mozilla-firefox/bin/firefox. Then I get a dialog asking me what profile I want to use. I have only one, "default." But it won't let me use it. It says it is already in use. This happens regardless of whether or not firefox is running.
I also tried /opt/mozilla-firefox/lib/mozilla-1.6/firefox-bin, with the same result.
How do I get tbird to use my existing firefox profile to open links? I found some discussion of the issue on the Mozillazine forum, but no authoritative solutions. I couldn't find anything in the tbird or firefox FAQs, which are overwhelmingly focused on Windows issues.
Any suggestions?

Xentac wrote:Edit /usr/bin/mozilla-firefox.
ARRRGH! It would never have occured to me to edit a bin ... I have a long way to go
There are still some issues with doing it like this, however. For instance, if I'm already logged in at a Yahoo group site, then I open a new tab from a tbird email link to a second group, Yahoo doesn't recognize that I'm already logged in. And my sign-in/password data isn't stored in the new tab (the one opened from tbird), I have to re-enter it. That's not the way the two programs interact under Windows, but under Windows the default is for tbird to reuse the existing active tab if you already have firefox open. The default action can be changed if you use Tabbrower Extensions (there's an item in the firefox FAQ about this), so that a link from tbird will open a new tab and otherwise all will be as normal. But of course all this depends upon you first setting firebird as your default browser under Windows. The difference seems to be that under Linux there is no "default" setting for tbird to interpret -- i.e., there's no "default" browser.
...Which brings me a larger question that should probably be in "newbie corner" -- is the only way around this to run under a DE like Gnome/KDE?

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