Numbers In Lion Problem

Just upgraded to Lion. Two problems have begun. 1) When I open a Numbers file, an earlier, unrelated, file also opens. This is annoying. How do I stop that action? 2) I tried to "Save As" a file with a new name in a different location, but no longer seem to be able to do that. Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Arnie

(1) Let us time to discover the true behavior of the beast.
In fact, when you create a document from a template, press immediately cmd + S and you will get the well known Save As… dialog.
(2) The files which open when you re-open the app are those which were open when you closed it.
Close the files before leaving the app, they will not open at next launch.
Run this script to disable the save_application_state feature :
--{code}
set Saved_Application_State to (path to library folder from user domain as text) & "Saved Application State:"
set maybe to choose folder with prompt "Choose the folder linked to the application which you want to 'lock'" default location (Saved_Application_State as alias) without invisible
tell application "System Events"
every disk item of folder (maybe as text)
end tell
tell application "Finder"
set locked of maybe to true
end tell
--{code}
You will be asked to select a folder in such a list :
com.apple.finder.savedState
com.apple.installer.savedState
com.apple.mail.savedState
com.apple.Safari.savedState
com.apple.Pages.Numbers.savedState
com.apple.Pages.Pages.savedState
com.apple.ScriptEditor2.savedState
com.apple.systempreferences.savedState
net.nightproductions.prefSetter.savedState
I guess that you will identify the correct one.
The, the script will empty this folder and lock it.
The application state will no longer be saved (until you unlock the folder)
I will post later a script allowing all of us to disable /enable the feature.
Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) lundi 25 juillet 2011 16:25:44
iMac 21”5, i7, 2.8 GHz, 4 Gbytes, 1 Tbytes, mac OS X 10.6.8
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