Is there a global way to turn off restore features?

The restore features are quite problematic.  Is there a way to turn this off globally?  Every time I open Textmate, or Preview, etc with a new document, I get window(s) with previous documents.  When I log back in, if I forgot to hit the logout-sabotaging check-box, all the previous applications re-open.  It is driving up my blood pressure.
Is the a defaults command or something I can do? 
I can't believe this kind of "feature" would be implemented without some sort of obvious preference control, but I have searched everywhere to no avail.  Please help!  Between this and the heavy resource consumption, I'm almost ready to do what I never in 10 years of using OS X would have considered:  reinstlaling the previous version of the OS.

Thanks.  I found the 10,000 other postings after I posted this (the new search utility auto-dumped me into a new post).
Two additional defaults commands I found turn off the remaining annoyances in Safari and Preview:
defaults write com.apple.Preview ApplePersistenceIgnoreState -bool TRUE
defaults write com.apple.Safari ApplePersistenceIgnoreState -bool TRUE
Now if I can find one to permanently uncheck that check-box you get on log-out, I will be (relatively) happy.

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