Index: includes/common.inc
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RCS file: /cvs/drupal/drupal/includes/common.inc,v
retrieving revision 1.507
diff -u -p -r1.507 common.inc
--- includes/common.inc	15 Jan 2006 07:14:14 -0000	1.507
+++ includes/common.inc	17 Jan 2006 11:01:58 -0000
@@ -1027,7 +1027,7 @@ function drupal_attributes($attributes =
  *   an HTML string containing a link to the given path.
  */
 function l($text, $path, $attributes = array(), $query = NULL, $fragment = NULL, $absolute = FALSE, $html = FALSE) {
-  if ($path == $_GET['q']) {
+  if ($path == $_GET['q'] || ($path == '<front>' && variable_get('site_frontpage','node') == $_GET['q'])) {
     if (isset($attributes['class'])) {
       $attributes['class'] .= ' active';
     }