Safari bookmarks resetting?

My Version of Safari: 5.0.5
Since upgrading to lion my Safari bookmarks keep resetting themselves.
What I mean by that is that I put them in folders but when I reopen Safari they are back in a single list (and also in the previously mentioned folders).
Anyone else have this problem? Is there a fix?
I tried repairing disk permissions because I read something similar to this but that didn't fix anything.

Nope.
All the bookmarks I deleted came back again. But this time I noticed that the new sub-folders that I created and moved some bookmars to, was there too.
SO, it seems I can't delete bookmarks, it just keeps new ones and keeps merging them forever.
Mobile me used to have an option to choose the direction of the syncing/overwriting. I don't see that option anymore. I wonder if this is a bug that Apple missed in moving to iCloud.
Can you think of any way of deleting my bookmarks from iCloud, so I can start fresh? -- but then, I'd be worried that it would delete all of my bookmarks from all my devices. :-/
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