Safari bookmarks lost when synchronizing

I was editing my bookmarks folders in Safari (the latest version), and as i was moving a folder around, I was told I couldnt edit bookmarks at the moment because they were being synchronized. Thats not a big deal, but then, the folder I was dragging from one place to the other, disappeared! Its not in its original location, its not in the new location and its simply not anywhere. I did a search for it but its gone!
What can I do? I had a lot of bookmars in there.

I tried this without success. I noticed that once the folder disappeared (the one I was dragging over to place within another folder while rearranging bookmarks), it also disappeared on my iOS devices as well. This happened very quickly before I could even get any of them shut down or disconnected from the network.
It seems that this would most certainly be classified as a BUG in Safari and/or it's interaction with iCloud. If I move a folder and the synchronization process is running to synchronize a previous "edit" or "move", then the folder being moved should revert back to it's original location instead of simply disappearing. Is this an issue with Safari, iCloud, the supporting framework, or Lion OS?
Thankfully I have a TimeMachine backup from last Friday that I will be able to use for restoring the bookmarks.plist file. But for future reference, is there a way -other than turning off iCloud sync for bookmarks- to extend the timeframe allowing for multiple bookmark edits prior to synchronization, or maybe force synchronization to wait until the bookmarks list is closed?
Thanks,
Treffin

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ptichkalix, I have a mid 2010 Macbook.
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