brazillion blank bookmark folders

[akm3]

My icloud sync seems to have gone crazy, on both my Mac and my iPhone I have hundreds and hundreds of bookmark folders that are blank (no name, no conents). I assume the sync is duplicating them. I can only seem to erase them one at a time and it takes >30 seconds to erase each one, it would literally take me days to fix. The iPhone can delete them faster but for all I know they are being created at an exponential rate.

Any suggestions how to fix this with one swoop?

 

[akm3]

OK, I shut off iCloud sync on both my iOS and Mac.

Then I exported my bookmarks, deleted my ~/Library/Safari/Bookmarks.plist file, and reimported the bookmarks. This time it was running 'fast' so I could nuke all the blank folders. Mac looks good.

iOS I shut off Bookmark syncing and had the option to delete the already synced data on the device. This makes the iOS device look good.

Now when I turn sync back on though, I only have an option to 'merge', what is on my computer to iCloud, *not* to REPLACE iCloud's bad gajillion folders. How do I nuke the iCloud sync data for bookmarks? MobileMe had a 'replace' option that seems to be gone from iCloud.

Help!