Something keeps hijacking my Home Page back to Mozilla Firefox

After I have typed a URL into the Tools->Options->General Home Page and OK, it keeps getting set back to Mozilla Home Page by blanking out the field on reboot. Why?

A new tab opens with the page set in the browser.newtab.url pref and not with the home page. The home page opens in a new window.
You can check the browser.newtab.url pref on the <b>about:config</b> page.
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/about:config

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