Safari won't save bookmarks, being problematic

This is a query on a friend of my family's MacBook. She mostly uses it to look at her email and has had it over a year without a problem.
The problem start after (and this is my theory) the computer was left on sleep by accident and the battery was drained. I've tried to recharge and reset the battery as far as possible using the support pages, but no deal- it's broke. That's a separate issues now.
Safari was originally starting up with a message that bookmarks cannot be saved and are unavailable. When I went in and tried to save a bookmark it wouldn't let me, and it wasn't saving a history. Also, it stopped loading anything after I'd visited two pages. The Safari folder had completely disappeared as had the bookmarks plist file.
I downloaded all the system updates, which included Safari, installed and restarted but now Safari was starting immediateltly on boot up, and although not giving a bookmark warning on start up was not saving bookmarks. I could browse as much as I wanted, though.
Console gave the message: 'Exception occured trying to obtain lock to save bookmarks;
NSException [can't get write lock on (null): Bad address] [(null)]. Bookmarks will not be saved.
I downloaded the new Safari, deleted the old one and installed and restarted. It still started automatically on log in and wouldn't save any bookmarks and there was still no Safari folder in the library, no Safari preferences and no bookmarks.plist. They're there when I click on the bookmarks icon, but that freezes the window.
Also, whenever I select 'view status bar' it turns into a white screen where the browser used to be.
I've also tried moving the preferences folder and restarting to force the computer to make a new one, but it makes no difference.
Suggestions?

I appreciate your response... however, I should have done a better job of researching this question. There are multiple responses in the "More Like This" sidebar.
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