Preference to open multiple sites on launch?

Is there a way to do this (either directly or in some clever roundabout fashion)?
Here's what I'd like to have happen every time I launch the Safari app:
In addition to opening a new window with the Home Page I've selected in the General Prefs tab
(http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html, the Astronomy Picture of the Day -- a very cool site for anyone who wants to check it out), I'd ALSO like to have a second window open, containing tabs for things like my Facebook home page, my Twitter home page, etc.
I don't actually use those "social" sites very much -- and one of the reasons why is I tend not to have them open unless I get an e-mail notification which prompts me to check something out on one of them. It would just be a convenience to have the option of Safari opening them automatically every time I open Safari (after which I can of course always close those pages but still leave the browser open if I so choose).
But the overall question remains: is there some way to have Safari always open a user-defined combination of URLs in a user-defined configuration of windows and/or tabs, whenever you launch the application? (Or is it Safari 4 Feature Request time?)
Thanks,
John Bertram
Toronto

Thanks -- not sure how I missed that thread in my search.
I'll continue this thread, with a quote from the one you referenced:
John Guo wrote:
Open those 4 websites in different tabs. Save them as one bookmark by going to Bookmarks>Add Bookmarks for These 4 Tabs.... Go to Safari>Preferences. Click on "New tab opens with:" and select Choose tabs folder. Click Choose and you're set.
Two problems:
1) I've done the first part of this scenario (creating a Bookmark which includes multiple tabs), but after looking through all the Safari Prefs windows, I'm just not seeing a "New tab opens with:" option. In the General window there's a "New windows open with:" option, which as I said above I've set to a particular "home page", and I don't want that to change.
2) Assuming I could find this alleged "New tab opens with:" option (am using Safari 3.2.1, if that's relevant), the last part of John Guo's thread seems to imply that under his scenario I would now get this multiple tab window combo every time I clicked Cmd-T to open a new tab, which I definitely don't want. (I only want this window, with its particular group of pre-determined tabs, to open when I launch Safari, not every time I open a new window and/or tab while using the program.)
Sorry for the confusion, but if anyone can help me better understand the last part of the workflow quoted above, and what its final result would be, I'd be hugely grateful.
jb

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