Syncing bookmarks in iPhone5 - solved

I had a hard time with this, talked to 3 apple support people with no success. The iPhone safari had picked up a HUGE list of bookmarks and I wanted to cut it down to about 10 for the iPhone. Simplify, you know? One apple guy told me you have to take off the iPhone bookmarks "one at a time as unless you completely restore to its birthday, you will never get them off". It would take a verrrry long time to delete them one at a time. Sorry, venting.
What I discovered is that even though iMac Safari was showing the stripped down 10 bookmarks, it was actually holding on to several hundred. I figured this out by exporting the bookmarks into an html fiule and editing it. I was shocked to see all those old folder and bookmarks in the html file. Safari only displayed the ten. I edited the file, opened safari and imported the leaner bookmarks list. Did the sync and iphone now has 10 bookmarks, not hundreds.
This worked just peachy when I did the next sync - including "info/advanced/replace bookmarks.
Got to like it when it works!

Yes, of course I have it set up to sync. That is funny you put that in there though. I guess it's hard to guess what level of technical savvy most posters have, so it's better to be safe.
I think it has more to do with Safari than with MobileMe. Before I even started Safari on Lion, I replaced the Bookmarks.plist with my previous version, which seemed to work once I first booted up Safari, but realized they were gone whenever I quit out and restarted.
Afterwards, that's when I tried using the import command, which again seemed to work but they also disappeared upon restarting. Not sure what is going on but it seems to have affected MobileMe now. I think I'll remove my Safari folder and try to start over.

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