Preferred keyboard keeps on switching to the wrong one

I am in the habit of using 2 keyboards: the inbuilt English-language one on my MacBook Pro, and an external Apple Italian keyboard. Until Lion, switching from one to the other always worked fine (by changing between the little Italian and British flags up in the right hand corner of the menu bar) but now if I log out or sleep the system, the computer switches to the WRONG keyboard.
Why has this suddenly started to happen? Yet another new feature?

Tom in London wrote:
if I log out or sleep the system, the computer switches to the WRONG keyboard.
Is your problem essentially that when you need to login, the machine wants a different keyboard layout than what you are expecting to use?
You can have the input menu appear on the login page by checking a box in system prefs/users and groups/login items.

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