Making Airport turn on at startup

My mid-2009 MBP 17" does something very strange: Every time I start it up, it boots with the Airport setting to "off". When I click the Airport icon in the menu bar to turn it on, it starts up and connects to my wireless network just fine, and stays connected until I have to shut the laptop down again (it stays connected to Airport when I close the lid/put it to sleep and then wake it again- this problem ONLY occurs at startup). How can I set it so that it makes the Airport setting stay on by default until I shut it off?

Perhaps the settings for your location are not set for Airport to be on. So change those settings or create a new location.

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