Why won't Firefox Sync add data to a new profile?

I have been following the advice on [http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/questions/new?product=sync this] article. It has told me to make a new profile and set up my Sync account on that profile.
I have done all of this, and I have followed all of the steps correctly. However, the new profile will not download all of my data from the server. Why is this?
I am using the latest nightly of Firefox 4 (2011-01-08).

Thanks but perhaps I didn't explain the problem well.
I was on the Google page, and put in the item I was searching for, clicked search and got a page or many pages of potential sites that would fit my query. But if I clicked on one of the sites, I couldn't click back to the Google page, the back arrow was gray. It doesn't happen all the time, only occasionally. Guess it's just a problem with some sites.

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