Toxic tabs in Safari 5.1 OS 10.7.1

Safari has just crashed 'unexpectedly'. I say 'just', actually about 3 hours ago and I've been wrestiling with the problem since then.
Restarting Safari, it works OK with the exception of three tabs that are remaining from just before the crash. If I try to do anything to close or make active any of those tabs, Safari crashes again. I have a fourth tab open, on this or any new tabs I open, everything works normally as far as I can see as long as I ignore the three bad tabs.
All three bad tabs are ebay pages, past experience tells me ebay page crashes are often related to Flash. I've tried uninstalling & reinstalling Flash, with no benefit. On revisiting the same ebay pages on a new, working tab, all work fine. I've tried all the hints about Safari crashes (including deleting cache & history files) I can find elsewhere in the forum with no success.
I can 'Quit' apparently normally as long as I stay on the working tab. Is there no way of forcing Safari to restart without attempting to reload pages on the previous tabs? If not, that would seem to be a major design flaw.
I'd be grateful if anybody has any suggestions to offer.
Andy

Sorry to have wasted your time, I've answered my own question in the last few minutes - just realized I can simply disable the 'Restore windows when quitting & re-opening apps' feature which seems to have done the trick. I found the feature more of an annoyance than a benefit generally, so it's no loss!
Doesn't explain the original crash but I'll worry about this when it happens again.
Thanks,
Andy

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