Toolbars keep getting reset

This is an ongoing issue after I upgraded to FF 4. I currently have 4.01 and running Vista. Every 2 days or so , when I boot the computer at start of the day and start firefox,my custom toolbar with some shortcuts would have disappeared. I have a backup of the localstore.rdf file which has the toolbar info in it and what I do is close firefox and then replace the localstore.rdf in the profile folder with my backup then after this I start firefox to see my toolbar back.
What I think is happening is firefox sometimes resets to default or currupts the localstore.rdf during boot or shutdown. What could be a possible fix for this?
Thanks

Although the profile database can -and often times will- become corrupt the real issue is FF4+ will always refuse to remember custom toolbar setups. Therefore the basic article posted on toolbars resetting contains truth and is useful many times it ultimately is wrong since the real problem is the browser design itself. The supposed benefit of FF4+ is speed- but that also is done by making it impossible to run more than a couple of add-ons. In effect it means that if you want anything other than an incompetent Chrome imitation and you want the ability to run enough add-ons run 3.6 until they actually release a competent **cough cough** upgrade.

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