Safari on lion never opens to my home page.  Always opens on last visited. even though I set prefs to home page

I am running os x7.3 on mac mini with safari 5.1.4
safari will not open to my "home page"..... I set the prefs..... but it always opens to the last page I went to.  How do i correct this.....

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