Why did my bookmarks disappear?

This is Firefox 4.0.1, on a Windows XP sp3 machine.
I've got two questions - one is the immediate problem that my bookmarks have all disappeared. Before I give up entirely, is there someplace maybe that I could look to find them?
The other is why? I do not recall doing anything except installing Java on my desktop. Does Firefox just suddenly decide on its own to delete bookmarks? Did Java do this?
I looked in the Profiles folder, and see only one profile, and it has only two folders in the backup directory - today and yesterday. I didn't manually do either backup. I remember I used to have at least one back up, because several months ago, I downloaded an app that would parse the xml from my bookmark backups. But I can't remember where those bookmarks are.
But what's with just having some website go in and start messing around with the data on my machine? It definitely creeps me out.

This can be a problem with the file places.sqlite that stores the bookmarks and the history.
* http://kb.mozillazine.org/Bookmarks_history_and_toolbar_buttons_not_working_-_Firefox

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