Textedit malfunction in OS Lion

I'm having a hard time with TextEdit, and I'm not really sure *** is going on. I downloaded Mac OS Lion the day it came out.
(MacBook 2008, 2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 2GB 1067 MHz DDR3, Don't know what else you might need)
So, last night I had 2 TextEdit windows open. I was working on them just fine. One was an Untitled that I wasn't planning on keeping, another one that I continually saved. Well, I was done for the night, but wanted to keep both files open to work on when I woke up. So I just closed my MacBook like I usually do.
This morning, I opened my MacBook and tried to enter the saved file to continue editing the text. But it wouldn't let me. The top bar was greyed out, and when I went to x it out (red x), it wouldn't. Then I went to the top bar thingy (I know, I suck at remembering terms) to check preferences and whatnot, and it wouldn't let me click on anything. Same with the Untitled TextEdit file.
So I did Command Quit, and then reopened, thinking that would help. It didn't. I quit again and tried opening another file. I couldn't edit that one either, so I quit again and restarted the MacBook. When it was on again, I went to open the original saved document. It opened the first two (Saved and Untitled) AND the other file I opened to check TextEdit. And I couldn't actually do anything in any of the files.
I did this several times, and now whenever I open TextEdit, I've got five windows open that I can't edit.
I don't know what's going on. I checked to make sure both admin and my user (the ONLY user on this computer) have both read and write ability, and they do.
As a note, the folder these files are saved to are directly on the Macintosh HD drive thingy, beside the system, library, users, and applications folders. Does that change anything?
Please help me, I don't know why TextEdit is acting up this way.

Well, I don't know how, but the situation seems to have resolved itself. I plugged in my Wacom Bamboo tablet to work in Photoshop for a bit, and that was when I started being able to close the individual windows of TextEdit. Which is odd, because my trackpad was completely functional in other applications.
Anyway. Thanks!

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