Floating Textedit 'save' window ghost

I have had this issue since I upgraded to Lion. Textedit keeps a 'save' floating window open in the lower left corner of the screen. The only thing visible is a disembodied "File Format" and a dropdown. I can't get rid of it and it's not linked to any open document. Just there. Very annoying. I can open the drop down list but nothing else. I included a screen shot with using a MS Word doc to provide a white background.

No, I'm sorry (that would be insane).
Indeed it would. I was just wondering if something was happening in the area of screwed up display buffer, or other related memory errors.
It comes back when I re-open the app.
That is weird. Probably has to do with the Autosave/Versions feature of Lion and later. TextEdit tries to always come back to the last state (i.e. a bunch of text you has already started). It may have gotten trapped in a spot it's not supposed to. Big, BIG time guessing here, though.

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