How to close documents in Preview?

I can't close anything in Preview. When I got to "Show All Windows" it show all kinds of things I've recently opened.
I go to each one and File > Window, and File > Close Selected Image but neither works. The window displaying the file disappears, but the file still shows up when I click and hold the Preview icon in my dock. I've tried the keystrokes (Command + W and Shift + Command + W), too. This just closes the windows, but nothing will keep them from showing up as open.
I don't see any preferences to stop this. Surely I can avoid showcasing everything I've been opening to anybody who might use my computer, right? SURELY.

One possibility:
Where are these windows appearing? If they are appearing along the bottom of the screen in Show all windows, they are not open but are being shown as your history of recent items. A sort of heavy-handed way to eliminate this display of recent items is to set "Number of recent applictions", "Applications", to zero in System Preferences, General.
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I'm having exactly the same problem as originally described in this post. I've tried what is suggested but upon opening preview and going into expose, 10 or so photos are displayed in the lower half of the screen. Can anyone please advise how to close them permanently? If I click on a photo, it opens in a large window and if I click close then go into expose, it's still shown in the lower half of the expose screen. Please help.
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I have a simple problem which I just cannot find any discussion of how to fix. In both TextEdit and Preview (classic culprits on Lion), I have documents I can't close.
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