Safari Bookmarks Went Bye Bye

I was attempting an online transaction with my bank when suddenly I accidently bumped something on my desk; pens and pencils sprayed all over my computer keyboard. After picking up the mess I noticed that half of my Safari Bookmarks (after letter E) disappeared. Those still present were not corrupted but the rest of the alphabet was nowhere to be found. How do I restore them? I have an exterior Lacie hard drive. Time Machine is installed. I'm on operating system 10.7.3 (Lion). I cannot locate ~/Library/Caches/com.apple.Safari/Cache.db, nor have I found Home/Library/Safari, in the Bookmarks.plist file, as others have suggested. I'm stumped. What is the solution?

Quit Safari. Disable bookmark synchronization, if applicable.
Hold down the option key and select Go ▹ Go to Folder… from the Finder menu bar. Copy the following line into the text box that opens, then press return:
~/Library/Safari/Bookmarks.plist
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