Everytime I start Pages it opens old documents

When I start Pages, older documents are opened automatically.  I have unchecked "Restore Windows when Quitting and re-opening apps" and yet, everytime I open windows, it opens the last couple things I've been working on.  How can I stop this?

Hi Jerrold
I'm a bit puzzled.
Not only here it behave as I described but this behavior was also described in several threads in which some users were ranting against some Lion's features.
For what I get here, it may be a localization problem because when I tried to apply one of the tools listed by Peggy : Lion Tweaks, I correctly got the property NSQuitAlwaysKeepsWindows in the preferences files
but it changes nothing to the apps behavior.
Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France)  vendredi 11 janvier 2011 11:01:57
iMac 21”5, i7, 2.8 GHz, 4 Gbytes, 1 Tbytes, mac OS X 10.6.8 and 10.7.2
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