From: aftmid@tpg.com.au   
      
   The prefs.js file has been trashed when the system locked up. I have had this   
   with NS where I loose all my settings and my Bookmarks file (that is actually   
   really trashed). So I regularly keep a copy of the prefs.js and my BM file -   
   elsewhere - in the level above the user (xxx) directory, i.e. in Profiles...   
   C:\Documents and Settings\xxx\Application Data\Mozilla\Profiles\xxx   
   If you can find out the format of the prefs.js   
   you should be able to re-instate the mail dirs - I don't think they will have   
   gone. Its just that NS will have lost the pointer to it..   
      
   Here is an example of a part of my prefs.js in   
   C:\Documents and Settings\xxx\Application Data\Mozilla\Profiles\xxx   
      
   user_pref("mail.newsrc_root", "C:\\Documents and Settings\\xxx\\Application   
   Data\\Mozilla\\Profiles\\xxx\\e59ckzay.slt\\News");   
   user_pref("mail.quoted_size", 2);   
   user_pref("mail.root.imap", "C:\\Documents and Settings\\xxx\\Application   
   Data\\Mozilla\\Profiles\\xxx\\e59ckzay.slt\\ImapMail");   
   user_pref("mail.root.nntp", "C:\\Documents and Settings\\xxx\\Application   
   Data\\Mozilla\\Profiles\\xxx\\e59ckzay.slt\\News");   
   user_pref("mail.root.none", "C:\\Documents and Settings\\xxx\\Application   
   Data\\Mozilla\\Profiles\\xxx\\e59ckzay.slt\\Mail");   
   user_pref("mail.root.pop3", "C:\\Documents and Settings\\xxx\\Application   
   Data\\Mozilla\\Profiles\\xxx\\e59ckzay.slt\\Mail");   
      
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