Illustrator CS6 clipboard doesn't paste text from other programs, stays 'frozen.'

Lion Mac Tryout version: After using Illustrator CS6 copy and paste a couple times (just after you start it up), I cannot change the clipboard.
I cannot paste common text in from anywhere. It just pastes again the text from the last time the clipboard worked. I have to restart Illustrator CS6 to get a couple more correct clipboard uses before it repeats the same paste over and over despite what I just copied externally.
I'm having to still use Illustrator CS5.5 because of this. And wonder if updating to the Cloud version will turn off my access to Illustrator CS5.5. Help!
I think I won't be able to upgrade for real if this keeps happening.

I refuse to debate with anyone in literally lives in an online forum and has amassed >8,900 posts to their name (expecially at a pace of 8 posts per day, 365 days a year). Nevertheless, I stand by my previous two posts. It still can be a bug even though some experienced bug-reporting techno-masters have not seen it. And the fact remains the bug goes away for a while when you relaunch Illustrator. The problem is that it comes back at some point and none of us like the idea of perpetually relaunching Illustrator while we are working on a project in Illustrator. Furthermore, the fact some of us are seeing this bug doesn't mean there's a hidden/forgotten clipboard manager on our computers either. Some of us are also certainly no novices to Illustrator and we know of past bugs -- bugs which did not affect everyone (like the bug in Illustrator CS5 that would cause the application to crash/quit when you try to copy large graphics within Illustrator itself). It is also important to consider that Illustrator users are most often Creative Pros, not Techno-Wizards. As such they would prefer to be spared the lectures when it comes to proper protocol on bug reporting to Adobe. Posting in forums like this one is not in vain. And although proper bug reporting is important, to think Adobe (or the online media) is oblivious to forum posts is naive in the extreme.
For now, you can get around Illustrator CS6 Paste bug by drag-and-drop. Works for graphics but in most cases you can't always do that with text. But at least it is a semi-convient copy/paste-like way to move content from another app into Illustrator CS6.
I would like to add that I can COPY text or graphics within Illustrator CS6 and then Paste them in an external app just fine. The bug in CS6 seems exclusive to Copying something outside Illustrator and then PASTING it into Illustrator. So for those of you filing bug reports on this, you may wish to confirm that point and then file it as a "Can't PASTE content copied from external apps" bug.
Lastly, I'd like to point out that this thread is currently the lone place on the net that Illustrator CS6 users can Google-up any info about this Paste bug. Unsurprisingly, CS6 is so new not many people have discovered the bug yet. Even so, I have little doubt that as time goes on more and more will find this thread and seek some kind of relief, hoping to hear word about an Adobe acknowledgement the bug exists (which implies they are working on a fix). Filing a bug report is the right thing to do, no question. But I would like to encourage those of you who don't have this problem to please refrain from writing with a condenscening attitude when replying to people who have been bitten by this bug. Adobe is a big company and they don't need the help of individual guru users to defend them. Some people who experience bugs vent their distress in different ways. Sometimes it's best to just "listen" rather than brow-beat. I try to do that myself in cases where someone reports a bug that I myself have not seen. I feel their pain.
Best wishes to one and all.

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