Reinstall or edit broken search engine setting

The Creative Commons Beta search engine addon seems to be broken for me in Firefox, taking me to a 404 page each time. If I try reinstalling it from the Creative Commons site I get a popup message: "Firefox could not install the search plugin from "http://search.creativecommons.org/ccsearch.xml" because an engine with the same name already exists."
Is there any way to remove this plugin so that I can try reinstalling it? It's not listed under Tools > Addons. The Firefox help pages only tell me how to hide search engines, not how to actually remove them.
I'm using Firefox 34.0.5 under Windows 7, everything apparently up to date.

Hello TimTylor, with CLOSED firefox, seek for an .xml file of the searchplugin in '''searchplugins folder''' inside [http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_folder_-_Firefox#Windows Firefox profile folder] and delete it manually.
(All '''default''' search engines plugins exist in the "browser\searchplugins" folder in [http://kb.mozillazine.org/Installation_directory#Windows Firefox program folder or Firefox installation directory], but all '''custom''' search engines plugins exist inside firefox profile folder:-))
thank you

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