Opening Firefox 6.0 starts up to 8 Firefox windows

When I click on the Firefox shortcut, it opens up to eight blank Firefox windows.
If I click through them to close them all, then relaunch Firefox 6.0 it opens one less window (i.e. 7).
It would appear that this behavior continues, with the window count decrementing each time by one window, until eventually it opens just a single blank window (i.e. nothing in the URL bar)
Closing and re-opening one final time will open with the last remembered tabs (i.e. the expected behavior having closed a window with open tabs)
I've also noticed that the back button doesn't appear to work on the blank windows, I can browse fine with each instance but clicking back, or pressing backspace doesn't work.
OS: Windows 7
Browsers: Firefox 6.0, Chrome 13.0.782.215 m and IE 9
Firefox Addons: Firebug 1.8.1 / Roboform 7.4.2

Had deleted '''HideMyIP-P''' from computer recently, and didn't have problems untill I re-started computer... Which, come to think of it now, wasn't until a few days after deleting ''''HMIP-P''''... (computer is 'on' 24/7).
Then, on start-up, it wouldn't allow FireFox to connect to the Internet.
After reading through the website you recommneded, which mentiond ''HideMyIP-P'', I re-Installed ''HMIP-P'', then turned the "hiding" 'off' and was allowed(!) with FireFox to connect again.

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