When I restore bookmarks icloud overwrites

In the past year my bookmarks, contacts and other pieces of information have been repeatedly mangled and changed by icloud. After a lot of help from the forums I've found the way to restore the data from Time Machine. What I haven't found is the way to make the data then stay in the form that I've restored. My bookmarks, which went crazy a month ago, have been restored now 5 times. Each time, I get a day or so with the correct bookmarks then they revert to the jumbled mess. I've made sure Safari is not loaded when I restore, I've then immediately loaded Safari, confirmed that the bookmarks are now kosher, closed Safari, shut the computer down, restarted, everything I can think of. Sure enough, after 24 hours or so the whole thing is a mess again. What can I do?

I was wrong about the 24 hours business. In the last 15 minutes I've restored the bookmarks 8 times and each time the jumbled mess has been back within a minute.

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