In order to save other less knowledgeable Maemo users like me (haha) from thinking they have a problem reinstall, just FYI -- the bookmark feature will NOT show up until you actually add a bookmark.

I reflashed my N810 and restored my apps/data. Everything except a few apps restored just fine, but I thought one of those bad apps was Tear because it wasn't showing the latest version number on the About screen, and it kept defaulting to the dashboard instead of the homepage I'd previously set, etc. What made me think something was really wrong was that not only were all my bookmarks missing, but so was the bookmark menu option (via the ^ icon). So I was thinking that for some reason it was reverting back to a really old version, likely because of some repository problem. After about two hours of troubleshooting and reinstalling, I realized that it was all good. Oops.

I hope this helps someone else. I guess I also hope that there's someone out there as stupid as me to encounter this problem which automatically makes me less stupid....or at least stupid in a group instead of by myself. Haha.

I did want to report that a reflash and a restore does seem to reset everything associated with Tear -- all my bookmarks and settings were gone. Is there a way I could've avoided that?

-- Chris