Disabling auto-restore for .doc files in Pages

Perhaps the most infuriating feature of Lion is the auto-restore feature that assumes you want to open previous documents every time you use the app (a bewildering assumption). So fine, I go into the system preferences and uncheck "Restore windows when quitting and re-opening apps". The problem is, this setting does not seem to affect the restoration of Word documents (.doc or .docx); these documents restore as if the setting was checked, and moreover, they are in an unsaved ("Untitled") state, so I not only have to manually close the document, but I have to tell it not to save it as well.
This is clearly a bug, but is there a workaround?

My inactive Pages is using 85MB right now, but I have 1.5GB free. If I needed that memory and Pages were still inactive, the system would write it out to virtual memory. If your wife's system is slow it's a problem with active processes or badly coded ones. (Or, as Peter pointed out, too little RAM to begin with.)
Maybe the problem with your "Untitled" document is just that: you never saved it and you never closed it. The system can't know you don't mind losing it and since you never gave it a file, the system can't just leave it unopened when you restart Pages because it doesn't exist anywhere that would allow you to get it back if you did want it.

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