Hmm, have you ever changed it? Try 'removing' all the nodelets from your Frontpage, which should show the 'default' view..
(Thats what mine looks like now.. only after I added some..)
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I removed all of them, now I have only the "add"-checkboxes.
And on the frontpage I have the default view. I see now
what you meant. When I changed it, I had no problems with it.
It might be because this is similar to slashdot's behaviour with the slashboxes. If none are selected you get the default behaviour, if you select one, you get only the selected one.