CCleaner not excluding documents in MS Office 12 "Recent Documents"

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I am trying to EXCLUDE some of the entries in the list of "recently opened documents" in Word 12.0 but CCleaner seems to ignore the files I specify and removes them from the list anyway so that when I reopen Word after running CCleaner, the list is cleared.

 

Example: If I add the path C:\Users\{username}\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Office\Recent\{filename.doc}, run CCleaner and then open MS Word 12.0, I would expect that the specified document would still be displayed in the Recent Documents area; however, it is not. The only thing I can think of is that the document names I specify for exclusion are shortcuts (.lnk) and that this is somehow a problem for CCleaner. I have also tried excluding the index.dat file as well as the entire "Recent" folder to no avail. Am I doing something wrong?

 

I am running Vista Basic and CCleaner 2.01.507.