Safari Won't Reopen To HomePage in Lion

Just installed Lion on three computers but on one, a 2010 Macbook Air, when I launch Safari it opens with a blank address bar. In Safari preferences I have the homepage I want showing properly and if I click on the hompage icon on the tool bar it takes me to the correct homepage but if I restart/relaunch Safari I always get the blank address field. I did remove the com.apple.safari.plist from the preferences folder but after I reconfigured evrything I'm still getting the blank window. On my other two computers Safari is working properly. Can anyone help?

This is a first for me. Under Snow Leopard all this worked properly, relaunching Safari took me to my homepage and new windows opened to the same page. On two of my computers with Lion it still works this way but on my Macbook Air relaunching Safari just goes to a blank window.
I take that back I just checked the other machines and their Safari preference was set to open new windows with the homepage. That's why my Macbook Air didn't do this, its preference was still set to open to the same page. But prior to Lion all woud open to the homepage when Safari was launched and using the File menu to open a new window would open to the same page. I'm now thoroughly confused but the behavior is different with Lion and whatever version of Safari that came with it.
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Just installed Lion on three computers but on one, a 2010 Macbook Air, when I launch Safari it opens with a blank address bar. In Safari preferences I have the homepage I want showing properly and if I click on the hompage icon on the tool bar it takes me to the correct homepage but if I restart/relaunch Safari I always get the blank address field. I did remove the com.apple.safari.plist from the preferences folder but after I reconfigured evrything I'm still getting the blank window. On my other two computers Safari is working properly. Can anyone help?

This is a first for me. Under Snow Leopard all this worked properly, relaunching Safari took me to my homepage and new windows opened to the same page. On two of my computers with Lion it still works this way but on my Macbook Air relaunching Safari just goes to a blank window.
I take that back I just checked the other machines and their Safari preference was set to open new windows with the homepage. That's why my Macbook Air didn't do this, its preference was still set to open to the same page. But prior to Lion all woud open to the homepage when Safari was launched and using the File menu to open a new window would open to the same page. I'm now thoroughly confused but the behavior is different with Lion and whatever version of Safari that came with it.
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