Preview opens previously viewed files

I highlight just one file on my desktop and double click it to see it in Preview. I get a second image from a PDF I view yesterday. Went through Preferences in Preview, but can't seem to figure out how to get to only display one image I select. It's done this before too. I highlight the image and double click and it shows me the highlighte image and the last one I viewed.

Which turns this feature off for all applications. What if you want only to disable it for one or several, but not for all?
leroydouglas points to a cnn article that talks about locking directories under ~/Library/Saved Application State or by creating a 'template' (predefining a startup state) and then locking the saved state directory created when you quit, but apparently Preview doesn't save its state that way, at least I don't have a Preview 'saved state' directory in ~/Library/Saved Application State.
I found how to do it in the Terminal here
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1203457
defaults write com.apple.Preview NSQuitAlwaysKeepsWindows -bool false

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