So I noticed my computer was lagging, so I went to the process-list and saw that the CPU usage was 99%, and that most of that was being taken up by thunderbird.exe (which happens from time to time for me), so I ctrl-alt-del killed the thunderbird.exe process, and reopened it.
Then this is what I saw:
Yep, it's acting as though this is the very first time I've ever opened Thunderbird, and I don't have any of my email accounts set up, when previously I had TEN (yes ten) set up in there that will take forever to re-create. I'm not so worried about the email messages being lost, b/c they're stored on an IMAP server, which I was just using Thunderbird to pull them from, but it will take FOREVER to set up Thunderbird like I had it before.
How could this have happened? I don't see how just killing the .exe process (which i've done several times before when i had this problem) could just nuke the entire program back to the state it was in when i originally downloaded it...!
Halp!
p.s. I rebooted my computer to no avail [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]