Firefox bookmarks lost

Dear 4chan,

2 hours ago I tried to burn a CD. Somehow, Nero fucked up. First, it got stuck at 99%. Then, the CD LED went red (which I had never seen before) and in a matter of minutes, I could not start a single window, and the existing ones were gradually not responding. I ended up hard rebooting.
After that I start Firefox and see that my search engines and bookmarks have disappeared and that the program always starts in an odd place of the screen and wrong sized. I had to delete my profiles directory, restore an old copy of my bookmarks and search engines, and reinstall extensions.
Now goes the question : I was able to recover today's bookmarks file (with a few more bookmarks in it than last backup) but the last lines are filled with what looks like binary data (starts with normal html, ends with ridiculous characters) so FF only understands 500 Ko worth of bookmarks instead of 700 (and 620 for the backup). Anybody knows what it is and how I could recover that ?

Also, anyone experienced this, wether they solved the problem or not ? (Just to know how I managed to crash my comp like that)

Love,
Anonymous

www.firefoxmyths.com

"Legal Notice - Reproduction of this page in whole or in part is strictly forbidden. This guide and ALL versions thereof are protected by copyright under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). Feel free to link to this Guide."

A statement like that is unusual to see so prominently on a website, especially one discussing free software. It goes against the whole spirit of the free software movement, and to me, calls into question the validity of the information.

"there is no excuse for this except poor coding on Firefox's part."

this purports to be an informative site? that seems like an insult.

"Oops. We recently introduced a bug into the counter and it's being fixed. We're not quite there yet. Sorry for the confusion. We accidentally counted the 20 million people who updated from Firefox 1.5 to Firefox 1.5.0.1 this week."

NOT the style that a serious editorial/informative writer would use.

" Internet Explorer 6 supports Tabbed Browsing when used with the MSN Toolbar extension in Windows XP."

but see also "All Myths relate to running the default install of Firefox in Windows with no extensions."

double standards there it seems. Firefox extensions are ignored, but IE extensions are considered?

These may seem to be minor issues, but they call into doubt the veracity of the entire page.