Firefox will not hold a page for my home page

I am running firefox 5 I try to set a certain page for my home page,it will take it,but as soon as I close the browser,and reopen it,it goes back to a search page

Which search page?
Try:
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Preferences_not_saved
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Preferences_not_saved

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