Pasting from Illustrator to Photoshop has become more complicated and unpredictable-why?

I've been using Illustrator and Photoshop together for years, drawing in AI and pasting the results into PS. For some reason now, with AI 17.1, an unannounced change has been made, as far as I can tell: I have to be aware of the resolution settings in Illustrator-something I never had to pay attention to before-and, before I can paste the AI image from the clipboard into PS I need to adjust-manually- the size and resolution settings in the PS dialogue from the default setting (72dpi) to something resembling the units (pixels v. inches) and the resolution (300dpi) of the AI  vector image. But I thought vector art was resolution-independent? Oddly, I don't need to specify a size, just the units. I'm willing to believe that this may solve a problem or resolve an issue. So what is the problem or issue? I can't find bugger-all in the "New features" about it. What's going on? I'm on an iMac w/ 16GB RAM, running Mavericks 10.9.2. AI CC 17.1, PS CC 14.2.1.

I changed the AI File Handling and Clipboard settings as suggested. I even tried changing the "Preserve" settings at the bottom. No change in the cut-paste procedure in Photoshop. One peculiarity I noticed: with an AI image on the clipboard, I open a "new" canvas file in PS to receive the image. The new file shows dimensions in pixels (accurate pixel dimensions, according to AI) and dpi at 72. If I change the dpi to 300 first, then change the units to inches (or centimeters), what I get is a tiny, proportional 300 dpi space into which the actual AI image won't fit. But if I change the PS canvas dimensions first,  to inches, THEN change the dpi to 300, the process works and the canvas is the correct size. So even though I have deliberately set the AI Document settings at "High" or "Custom" (300dpi) resolution-something I never had to do before- the clipboard is telling PS 72dpi instead. Why isn't Photoshop reading the actual dimensions off the clipboard? Or why isn't the clipboard getting them from AI? Hardware or OS problem? Clipboard problem?

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