On Sun, 23 Dec 2007, Bernd Ernesti wrote:
> Check the file permission in /usr/pkg/lib/thunderbird/defaults/profile

-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   347 Dec 22 22:08 prefs.js

> and the thunderbird files in $HOME (don't know where it is, maybe somewhere
> under .mozilla). The file prefs.js needs to have write permission.
> Maybe the other files under $HOME need the write permission too.

That was it -- for some reason the one in ~/.thunderbird/garbage.default 
was created read-only. Thanks!!

Cheers,
Jared