How do I turn off the "locked" setting on my documents

A new feature of OS 10.7 that I never experienced on older versions of OS is that my documents will automatically "lock" themselves if I go for a period of time without using them.
Now, it's not a difficult thing to overcome. A dialogue box lets me "unlock" the documents with one click.
But even one click is annoying. I don't want any of my documents to lock at all, under any circumstances.
How can I instruct my Mac to turn off this feature? I can't find any related setting in the system preferences.
It doesn't even seem to be working as its supposed to. Some of my documents autmatically revert to the "locked" setting just days after I use them.

Check the Time Machine prefPane. IIRC, there's an option to select locking files, which has nothing to do with TM.

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