Quicktime player opens about 50 videos and then reports errors

The last time I was using Mountain Lion's QuickTime player, I accidentally selected about 90 files so now if I try and open the player, it wants to open all those files each time. Then it says it can't open them because they are in some format not supported. I have to force quit or else close each file. I tossed out all the QuickTime preference files I could find in the library but that didn't help. I even tried dragging a video to the QT app hoping it would forget the other files but it tried to open them all again as well as that video. Once again, I had to force quit. How can I make QuickTime Player forget all those files and just open up?
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