Safari 5.1 no longer saves bookmarks

Hi,
Since installing Lion and safari 5.1 I can no longer save any bookmarks, either to the bookmarks bar or to bookmark folders any ideas how to fix this?
IMac quad core i7 2.93GHz, 16GbB Ram
Ian

Could be the Safari preferences are corrupted ..
Go to ~/Library/Preferences. Move the com.apple.Safari.plist file to the Desktop.
Quit then relaunch Safari to test. If that helped, move the .plist file to the Trash.
~ (Tilde) character represents your Home folder.
If that didn't help, move the .plist file back to the Preferences folder.
Try this...
Quit Safari. Open a Finder window select your Home folder in the Sidebar on the left. Then open the Library folder, then the Caches folder, then the com.apple.Safari folder. Move the cache.db file from the com.apple.Safari folder to the Trash. Relaunch Safari. Try saving a bookmark.

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