A commented "#GRUB_SAVEDEFAULT=true" needs to be in the default config file as this saving of last booted OS will not work otherwise. Insane to expect people to happen to know what to hand key in to make Grub2 work the way Grub used to be able to work WITHOUT needing to know what line to add.
@Huseyin AKIN #10: Thanks, those concise steps actually worked. Thus, solution confirmed.
Tested on fully updated 10.04.
A commented "#GRUB_ SAVEDEFAULT= true" needs to be in the default config file as this saving of last booted OS will not work otherwise. Insane to expect people to happen to know what to hand key in to make Grub2 work the way Grub used to be able to work WITHOUT needing to know what line to add.