Safari no longer loads bookmarks after Leopard installed

I've recently upgraded to Leopard but since the upgrade I can no longer get to my bookmarks in Safari. I suspected that the file containing the bookmark info may have become corrupt, but after importing the file into Firefox, the bookmarks work fine. The problem seems definitely with Safari. Anybody experiencing the same problem? Any solutions?

Use Pacifist to re-install Safari part of Leopard.

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