Finder not opening automatically

Have just taken delivery of a brand new iMac and was excited at seeing Mountain Lion in action. However, after just a few short days, am noticing that Finder isn't opening/launching automatically on startup, although the 'light' is on in the Dock. I have to click on the icon to get it visible which I know shouldn't be the case as someone who has been using Macs for a few years. Would be grateful if anyone has any advice/tips on how to resolve this issue as it's annoying, especially on a new machine.
Thanks in advance.
PS Safari also not opening at startup even though it's listed in the login items along Mail which is opening fine. Googled and found a work around for the Safari problem which involved dragging a webpage to Desktop then saving that and listing the webpage address in the login items but can't see how to do the same for Finder.

Hi, let's start with this...
Bootup holding CMD+r, or the Option/alt key to boot from the Restore partition & use Disk Utility from there to Repair the Disk, then Repair Permissions.

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