Can't Bulk Drag and Drop Merge in Preview in Yosemite

I have to file expense reports all the time which are essentially an assembly of a bunch of different PDF files. In Mavericks I could print out a PDF of my expense report from our corporate expense site and then open that file in Preview, flip the view to "Contact Sheet" and then I can add all of my PDFs scans of my various expense receipts into that view via drag and drop from the Finder and it would add them all to the first PDF document. It was very easy and quick.
In Yosemite, Apple has changed Preview in many ways. One significant change for me is that I can no longer execute the above workflow. Rather I have to open the first PDF file in Preview, flip it to "Thumbnail" view and drag and drop each file individually into the thumbnail view. I also found the way the app behave is inconsistent....sometimes it ads and sometimes it doesn't, but I haven't been able to add multiple PDFs in one drag and drop like I always could in Mavericks. Sometimes I have dozens of PDFs for expense receipts and this is a massive pain in the butt.
I have downloaded 3rd party apps which let me go back to using my default workflow, but they cost $60 - when the utility provided with OSX worked fine before Yosemite was released. Does anyone have any recommendations on how to use Preview in Yosemite as it worked in Mavericks?

My issue is that I have a 64gb iPhone which connects to my Vista laptop where I have always chosen the option to manually manage my music. With the latest iTunes update I can't drag music to the iPhone because 'Manually Manage' is unchecked. Check it and I am told I will lose all the music already on the iPhone. But this was already there and Apple have created the issue for me by always making stuff purchased through iTunes the priority and any music files that have been created personally as a second-rate library (in fact Apple doesn't recognise such an idea can be possible - hence iCloud storage is for Apple purchases only). I'm damned if I am going to purchase an album I already have just to suit iTunes so I guess there are two choices. Find a program that is quicker, better, smarter and user friendly than iTunes or never update iTunes. It is often these little things that Apple let themselves down on these days. For people with music libraries that go into 100,000s tracks this is a pain and iTunes may not be the best program out there.

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