Yahoo toolbar keeps on disappearing every time I restart firefox

When I install an add on, it prompts me to restart firefox. When i restart, my yahoo toolbar disappears so i have to go back to add ons again and reinstall it.

If you lose the toolbar customization then you do not have a problem with places.sqlite, but with the file localstore.rdf in the [[Profiles|Profile folder]].
* http://kb.mozillazine.org/Corrupt_localstore.rdf
Use the Google cache in case of problems accessing the MozillaZine KB (prefix links with cache:):
*http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=cache:http://kb.mozillazine.org/Corrupt_localstore.rdf

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