Why won't Safari startup at a designated address?

A problem that I am having with Safari and NOT other browsers it that it will not open at a designated page on startup. It opens at the page that I was at when I closed it down. Past versions of Safari had an option in Preferences which, from memory, went something like this; "When Safari starts up, open [insert relevant address]. I chose to have it open at my Home Page. That option does not seem to be in the Preferences anymore. If it is I can't find it.
It seems to be a Lion related problem as it wasn't a problem before I installed Lion.

Turn off Safari Resume / System Preferences - General
Deselect Restore windows when quitting and re-opening apps.

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