Firefox 4 is not remembering history or allowing "back" or "reload"

I'm on Windows 7 Professional. I'm a LONG TIME Firefox user - several years. I love the program. I DO HAVE A PROBLEM NOW.
About a week ago I upgraded to Firefox 4. Since then the program is exhibiting bizarre behavior. I reinstalled TWICE - same issues. Sometimes it works correct, but it seems arbitrary at best. Here is a description:
1. When I open Firefox it no longer goes to my chosen home page - www.yahoo.com, as it has for YEARS. I checked the setting. It is still there.
2. About half the time the "Back" and "Forward" buttons are grayed out. Sometimes they are on, but I can't figure out a rhyme or reason to it. (I am a LONGTIME web user - make my living on the web - not a novice.) I triple checked all my settings in "Options" and they are what I set them at.
3. Sometimes I will be using the program and the "back", "forward" buttons come on and then they go off. Usually once they are on they stay on. If I am on a site and going forth or back they usually work once they START working, but they don't always seem to WANT to work.
4. I've tested this for several days - can't figure it out.
My PC Intel Core i& 930 @ 2.80 GHz 6 GB ram, 64-bit Windows 7 - WORKS GREAT otherwise.
I have no problems with "back" and "forward" or "reload" buttons in IE, also installed, but seldom used. HELP

cor-el
Thank you for your swift reply. I don't know that this has helped me, as I've reached my level of tolerance for fooling with this annoying little problem - for today anyway. It has been going on since I "up" graded to Firefox 4. My wife is running 3.6.x on her laptop with none of this foolishness. As BLASPHEMOUS as it may sound, I've gone back to IE for the time being even though I don't like it 1000th as much as I do Firefox.
Not just to rant here, I would say that I found a way to put some buttons on the right side of the toolbar that immediately gave me permission to "back, forward, and reload", but upon closing the browser and going out for dinner with the wife, I find on return that not only are those buttons NOT still on the toolbar, but I can't find them anymore. I think they were in "add-ons" found under I believe Add-On Manager.
I did also manage to achieve back/forward functionality running Firefox in SAFE mode, but this meant no No-Script, among other things, and I've grown too fond of that particular little script to give it up.
I've rebooted, restored, and reinstalled, can't get this formerly completely reliable program to work like it always has. Before looking around on here, I was beginning to think it was my PC.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR HELP, cor-el. I'm going to see if I can get on live chat on Monday.
bossman344

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