Safari sometimes won't launch home page under Lion

I installed Lion a few days ago, and the Safari started to behave in an erratic way. When launched, it sometimes opens the home page that I've set in preferences, but sometimes it opens the page that I was reading just before I quitted Safari last time. This is very inconvenient. What can I do to make sure that Safari always opens the home page when I launch it? Thanks to all who can help!

I installed Lion this past weekend and am having the same issue.  I see that no one has rendered any suggestions or helpful tips to correct the problem, which makes me wonder if its just a few customers have this problem or what.  But I agree its annoying as can be. 
Anyone have any ideas how to fix this?  I have set and reset my homepage preferences many many time with no luck.  Help!

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