System Problems: Login items & Application failures

Well ive tried a few home remedies to the following problems, but to no avail.
this is going to be a long one but im going to tell you what ive tried so we dont repeat ourselves
Login items:
list is CLEAR. (http://cl.ly/1Q3k2l2U0B1K0z2G0U37)
yet still i have: Microsoft messenger, Safari, Terminal and Textedit opening on startup. on the dock, when i right click, 'open on startup' is NOT checked.
ive tried a disk repair. via disk utility and terminal commands. none work.
any help/advice is much appreciated.
second problem, im not sure if it is related or not
whenever i load up Textedit (including when it tries to load on login) it crashes, brings up an error report i dont really understand, a massive one at that, and i havnt yet been able to get it to work.
ive tried removing the preference file, ive tried killing it with terminal. again, no avail.
thanks in advance for any help given.

Welcome to the iOS world of nonthinking, wherein the OS decides everything for you, whether or not that's what you want. Salient details described in http://www.apple.com/macosx/whats-new/features.html#resume
See these for possible fixes:
http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20110918051930924
http://osxdaily.com/2011/08/01/turn-off-resume-per-app-in-mac-os-x-lion/
http://restoremenot.info/

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I was trying to find the System Preferences Login Items panel to autolunch an application ("Remember?") when I start my computer, but I can't find the panel because my system is in french. Can someone just describe where the panel is and how it looks like ?
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Hello twtwtw:
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