There's a couple of utilities that do the same job: Bookdog, that is compatible with 10.2 to 10.4 but it costs 14.95$, and SafariSorter, that is free but is not compatible with Tiger.

About the hint, the two "plutil" commands can be inserted directly into the AppleScript, using:

do shell script "plutil -convert xml1 /Users/username/Library/Safari/Bookmarks.plist"

at the top of the script, and

do shell script "plutil -convert binary1 /Users/username/Library/Safari/Bookmarks.plist"

at the bottom.

Great hint! Thanks. Using mayo2ca's suggestion, I created a shell script that will do whole process for you. It's not fully tested nor foolproof, but it seems to work for me. A few notes and thoughts:

• The script assumes the XSLT file is saved in ~/Library/Safari/. Perhaps not the best place, but that's where I'm trying it out
• The script takes one argument as an alternative XSLT file
• There is an option to make a backup copy of your Bookmarks.plist file
• This hint's XSLT file sorts folders first, then files, which I like, but it sorts uppercase before lowercase, which I don't
• I know nothing about XSLT or XML
• Kick this off with cron/launchd or some keystroke launcher if you like

#! /bin/sh

####### Define constants and Variables #######

ARGS=                  # Number of parameters required besides
                       # options. Set equal to nothing for no requirement
ME=`basename $0`       # Capture this script's name
E_NOARGS=65            # Exit code for wrong number of arguments
E_NOLENGTH=66          # Exit code for zero length arguments
XSLT="$HOME/Library/Safari/SortSafariBookmarks.xslt"
BKMRK="$HOME/Library/Safari/Bookmarks.plist"


# Option defaults
# Mirror any changes here as needed in usage() and getopts
OPT_b=                 # -b option default

####### UI Information #######

usage () {
   echo
   echo "  Usage: $ME [options] [XSLT file]"
   echo "  Sorts Safari's binary Bookmarks.plist file"
   echo "  Options:"
   # Change the following as needed
   # and mirror in the following section
   echo "        -b         To make a backup file of Safari Bookmarks.plist"
   echo "        -h         For this help list"
   echo
}

####### Parse command line #######

# Get options from $@ (parameters/arguments)
# Change "ahf:v" as needed
while getopts bhv option
do
   case $option in
   b)   OPT_b=1;;
   h)   usage
        exit 0;;
   v)   version
        exit 0;;
   *)   exit 1;;
   esac
done

# This strips off options leaving remaining parameters
shift $(($OPTIND - 1))

# Check for required number of parameters if $ARGS is set
if [ $# -ne "${ARGS:-$#}" ]; then
   echo
   echo "$ME error: Requires $ARGS argument(s)" >&2
   usage >&2
   exit $E_NOARGS
fi

# Check for zero length arguments
# Uncomment to activate
for arg in "$@"
do
   if [ -z "$arg" ]; then
      echo
      echo "$ME error: No empty string arguments allowed" >&2
      usage >&2
      exit $E_NOLENGTH
   fi
done


##############################################################
#                     Main script area                       #
#      If we got this far, all command line parameters       #
#                        must be good                        #
##############################################################

# Convenient exit function to clean up after yourself
# Call this function instead of exit X
allDone () {
   # Insert cleanup code here

   exit $1
}

if [ ! -z "$OPT_b" ]; then
   echo "Backing up Bookmarks.plist to Bookmarks.plist.bak"
   cp $BKMRK $HOME/Library/Safari/Bookmarks.plist.bak
fi

for arg in "$@"
do
   echo "Using $@ as XSLT file"
   XSLT="$@"
done

plutil -convert xml1 $BKMRK
xsltproc -o $BKMRK $XSLT $BKMRK
plutil -convert binary1 $BKMRK

######## Exit with a successful code ########
allDone 0

P.S. - Obviously you are free to use or change this script to your liking and I can't be help accountable for any damage it may cause. :-)

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Tiger comes with an XSLT processor, xsltproc.