Any way to turn off password requirement on startup (without eliminating the password)?

I'm trying to help a friend with snow leopard.  Her primary hard drive was recently replaced by apple and then restored from time machine.  She's always had the same password but claims that she was never required to enter it for every startup as she is now.  She'd like to turn off that requirement.
I don't want to change her password to none (or null), as I perceive that there may be problems when attempting to do software updates with a null password.
I've looked at system prefs > security, system prefs >accounts, and the keychain and haven't found a way to do this
Any ideas?
She's using a prior generation MacBook Air.
Pete

Hi Francine
Thanks very much for your answer. I've got it working now thanks to you.
Strangely, it WAS set that way all along.
But I tried the following:
- I turned OFF Auto Login for her account, 
- Exited system preferences,
- Returned to Account Login Options,
- Turned ON Auto Login for her account, (again)
- Did a restart
And that seems to have done the trick.  It appears that the restore from time machine, may have only partially restored that setting.
Thanks very much for your quick and accurate response
Pete

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