Opening Firefox yields firefox.exe as a process, but no browser window.

I click on Firefox and I am presented with the session manager selection window. After selecting the previous session nothing happens. Checking the Processes tab in the Task Manager I see firefox.exe running, but there is no Firefox Task. Waiting a long time yields nothing. I end the process and restart Firefox and it opens in the upper left corner with only the three boxes (minimize, maximize, and exit) showing. Clicking on the maximize box opens the browser with only the app tabs available. The other tabs are missing. Going through Tools/Session Manager and selecting the session before the previous one (the one that did not open the browser) I can restore the full set of app tabs and regular tabs. In Session Manager the entries alternate between one with 14 tabs (the app tabs) and 24 tabs (with the non-app tabs included).
This happens every time I attempt to start Firefox after shutting it down or system crashing. It happened on Firefox 7.x and it is happening on Firefox 8.x.
OS is WinXP. Extensions loaded include:
AdBlock Plus
AdBlock Plus Pop-up Addon
Better Privacy
Ghostery
Password Exporter
Session Manager
TabMix Plus
WOT
I've tried disabling each of the addons, hoping one of them was the cause, but it made no difference.

Boot the computer in Windows Safe Mode with network support (press F8 on the boot screen) as a test to see if that helps.
Do a malware check with some malware scanning programs on the Windows computer. 
Please scan with all programs because each program detects different malware. 
All these programs have free versions.
Make sure that you update each program to get the latest version of their databases before doing a scan.
*Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware: http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam.php
*AdwCleaner: http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/download/adwcleaner/ http://www.softpedia.com/get/Antivirus/Removal-Tools/AdwCleaner.shtml
*SuperAntispyware: http://www.superantispyware.com/
*Microsoft Safety Scanner: http://www.microsoft.com/security/scanner/en-us/default.aspx
*Windows Defender: Home Page: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/defender/default.mspx
*Spybot Search & Destroy: http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html
*Kasperky Free Security Scan: http://www.kaspersky.com/security-scan
You can also do a check for a rootkit infection with TDSSKiller.
*Anti-rootkit utility TDSSKiller: http://support.kaspersky.com/5350?el=88446
See also:
*"Spyware on Windows": http://kb.mozillazine.org/Popups_not_blocked

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*Microsoft Safety Scanner: http://www.microsoft.com/security/scanner/en-us/default.aspx
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*Kasperky Free Security Scan: http://www.kaspersky.com/security-scan
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