Are unique GUIDs required in the data flow task in SSIS?

Hi,
I have previously used SQL server 2008R2 to develop packages. I was told not to copy and paste packages, or create templates with tasks on the data flow because this leads to multiple packages with the same GUID, the consequence of this might be calamitous
problems at runtime when the engine can't distinguish between tasks in different packages.
My process was to create templates with Control flow tasks only, manually create the dataflow tasks and then use bids helper from codeplex to regenerate GUIDs (this regenerated the GUIDs at the control flow level only).
I am now using SQL 2012. I have looked and seen that if I copy and paste a package the GUIDs at the data flow level are also copied. So my questions are:
1) Does having the same ID in different dataflows cause problems as I was led to believe?
2) If it does has this been addressed in some way in SSIS 2012? and what is the best way of working around this given I have many similar packages to develop?
Thanks,
Dan

SSIS doesn't really lend itself well to creating templates.
SQL 2012 is much improved when it comes to copy and pasting tasks, dataflows and transformations between package designs, other than the usual issues with missing connection managers.

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