Disabling Auto Restore with TextEdit

I have a brand new MacBook Pro with Lion 10.7.2 on it. I don't like the "restore windows when quitting and reopening apps" option in the General preferences, so I've unchecked that. This works for most apps, but not TextEdit.
For some reason, TextEdit refuses to honor the general preference, and if I quit TextEdit with a file open, it reopens that file the next time I launch TextEdit. I don't like this behavior -- I want it to work like it did in Snow Leopard.
I've downloaded a third-party control panel called RestoreMeNot which is supposed to let you pick apps to disable this function with. But it says it can't disable TextEdit.
What's going on? And how do I prevent TextEdit from restoring windows the next time it launches?
Thanks in advance.

It appears that none of the information in any of the above responses to the original poster offer any resolution to this problem. When responding to a question, it would be VERY helpful to actually test the response rather than just posting blind speculation. Otherwise this forum becomes no more useful than using Yahoo! Answers as an online substitute for professional medical advice.
I've made two calls to AppleCare in attempts to resolve this, and after speaking with an upper tier support rep, we determined there currently is no solution: Auto-resume with TextEdit is absolutely unavoidable, and closing windows must be done manually, one at a time. I use TextEdit for a variety of reasons, and I use it a lot - so it's very easy for me to have dozens - if not 150+ - TextEdit windows open at any given time, and being forced to close each of those individually, each time selecting "Don't Save," is ridiculous. If TextEdit must by default use auto-resume without the option of turning it off - which frankly is fine with me - Apple's OS X team MUST implement a way to kill all open documents if the user chooses to do so.
You know, something along the lines of "Permanently close all open documents - Warning, all unsaved changes will be lost."
(A similarly aggravating issue existed with Preview - but at least there's a wonky workaround that actually worked... as opposed to the wonky workarounds suggested for the problem with TextEdit.)

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