The Internet Explorer Import/Export wizard for Favorites can be used to import from Netscape, but also can be used to export from one computer using IE and then import to another (or the same) computer using, perhaps, a different version of IE.  Are you aware that IE's Favorites are in a folder \Windows\Favorites  ?  Perhaps they are still in that folder, but IE, after the Earthlink re-install, lost access to them, somehow.  

I KNOW better than to come into this site for a question.  Ya'll function at a guru level.
You'll have to forgive me...because I'm pretty computer illiterate and don't read implications well.
Yes...the Favorites file is in Windows.
It was there all along.  
From what I gather in your comment, I CAN(?) use the Wizard to transfer the favorites file from anywhere to anywhere.   Is that what you're telling me?

So this dummie just has to figure out how??
Is that the bottom line?

Not sure what you mean by "anywhere to anywhere."  The export of the IE Favorites is in a format so it can be read in by Netscape Navigator, but also by IE.  Also, Netscape users can export their "Bookmarks" so that IE can import them into the Favorites.

Okay, nothing is ever as simple as it seems.  I know that.
Let's say that YOU just lost all your favorites in IE.  You KNOW they're in your Windows Favorites file.
You want to have access them to them in IE.
You've discovered through a click and drag attempt in Windows Explorer that you CAN'T move them into the IE folder directly.  You don't know why, but there's no FAVORITES folder.
So you sit and wonder.
It occurs to you to check your ISP folders.
Ah ha.  There it is.  In Earthlink.  There's a favorites folder.  So...you click and drag all the files from Windows Favorites to Earthlink's Favorites and you have all of your favorites now appearing in IE.

Again, you're wondering what you could have done in the Import/Export Wizard to move those same files.  Is it even possible?

Is this any clearer?

Well, no, I'm afraid it's not clearer.  I use Earthlink, too, although with a DSL connection rather than modem. I remember, though, when I installed Earthlink, there was an option during the setup process to copy all my IE Favorites to Earthlink.  I didn't have to use it, because prior to Earthlink I used AOL, and I used a shareware program to transfer all my AOL Favorites to IE. I also do not use Earthlink's browser to go to the net, since I decided I did not like Earthlink's better than IE.  I uninstalled Earthlink's browser, thus saving me about 40 megabytes of disk storage, and use only IE to connect to the internet (but it calls Earthlink's "dialer" to establish the connection.)  You might be able to do something similar...

LeeTutor
I want to end this question and grade you fairly.
Can I use the Import/Export Wizard in IE to transfer my Favorites file from my C drive to an IE file on my pc or to my Earthlink Favorites file?
Guess that's it.
Thanks a lot.

Thanks for your time.  
Jackie