Updated Safari 1.5.1: Bookmarks all gone!!

Was autonotified that 2 updates were available: Safari 1.5.1 and iTunes. After the installation, all my Safari bookmarks, bookmark menu, bookmark bar are gone and reset to what looks like a default list. I am running the latest LION release/version...
I know I can back up from my Time Machine by going to ~/Library/Safari/bookmarks.plist and restore.. however I can not locate the file???
I know that ~/Libray is hidden so I went to Finder and pressed option GO and library displayed... I then opened TIme Machine and attempted to find the bookmarks.plist under Safari on an older backed up copy and the file was not there... I am very confused.
Thanks in advance for any assistance
Tony

I finally found a backup of the bookmarks/plist in TM from 2 weeks ago and restored successfully... all the other TM backups did not have the file!! I do not understand that at all...
So really 2 issues: why migrating to Safari 5.1.5 deleted the bookmarks inthe first place and then why the backups for the past 2 weeks did not contain the bookmarks file except for just one of the backups (the earliest one)...
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M. Davis:
Thank you for your kind and prompt solution. It is a winner.
Problem solved, again many thanks and a very fine evening/day wherever you
may be.
~Very best.
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but I would like to know why this happened in the first place.
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