Safari Bookmarks Erased !!

Hello, i've been googling answered to solve this problem for hours, even called Microsoft & Apple for help but nothing. i just restarted my computer. everything was normal. all bookmarks are there, i actually just added another bookmark. so then when the computer comes back on, i open safari & the bookmarks look empty. the only bookmarks are the ones that come with safari (Apple, Yahoo!, Google Maps, YouTube, Wikipedia, News, & Popular). nothing else !! all history is there from this whole week but NO BOOKMARKS !! so i googled how to restore safari bookmarks. they tell me to look for the 'bookmarks.plist' file in safari folder. i followed plenty of instructions like "File"> "Import Bookmarks" & tried to search for the file in (Users/yourUserName/Library/Safari/Bookmarks.plist) in safari but i cannot find that safari library folder folder. i tried (C:\Users\yourname\AppData\Roaming\Apple Computer\Safari\) but i cant even find the "appdata" folder. so then apple tells me that you can only search for the bookmarks.plist folder on a mac computer... =/ so that means i wasted the whole evening looking for those folders.
now since apple & microsoft basically tell me im on my own... im becoming really desperate. i have hundreds of very important bookmarks saved that have a bunch of job listings & apartments that i really really need.
if anyone can help PLEASE reply
im going to be searching every folder on this **** computer tonight
:-O
Thanks in Advance

I was checking on a Vista Ultimate system ... I think the Home versions have shadow copies enabled, but they don't have a user interface.
Given that they are enabled, you might be lucky and track down some previous versions of the Bookmarks .plist using a utility like ShadowExplorer:
http://www.shadowexplorer.com/
Here's their manual for the utility:
http://www.shadowexplorer.com/documentation/manual.html

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