Safari "back" button gone

Anybody else have this happen? In the upper left corner of my Safari (2.0.4) page, where there used to be a "back" button (black triangle), I now have a "refresh" button (half-circle).
I can still go back a page by using CMD-[ but I want my button back!
Any ideas? Thanks.

Hi,
There are 2 ways to restore it.
- Quit Safari, trash the Safari preferences file at /Users/YourUsername/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Safari.plist and then restart Safari
or
- Right-click (or control+click if using a single button mouse) on the toobar area and choose 'Customize Toolbar...' - from the dropdown that appears you can re-add the missing buttons.
Hope that helps.

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