Can't Copy / Paste from Skype

Me and my friend often exchange story ideas in skype, and to ensure I don't lose these, I save them into Microsoft Word. Skype, however, has started giving me serious copy / paste problems. I'll select all, then either right click or crtl + v, go to word... and my clipboard doesn't even register as having picked up anything. Only when I manually drag my cursor to select text (which takes an agonizing amount of time--we talk a lot!) will the stupid thing allow me to copy it.
This problem has been ongoing for quite a few months, but usually restarting my computer would restart the copy / paste functionality, provided I didn't copy anything else before copying from skype. It's now been close to a straight month without it working in skype at all, though, whether I restart my laptop or not.
Any suggestions? I'm running the latest version of skype.

If I recall correctly, the Windows clipboard system allows the developer to place different types of data in the clipboard, and convert between them. It is often possible, for example, to paste formatted text as plain text and so on. Large amounts of data are sometimes stored as "links" back to the producing program, so that it can transfer data directly.
Now this is just a guess, but when you select all with Ctrl+A, there's a chance that Skype in fact puts all the information about the whole message into the clipboard, including its metadata such as time, sender, etc. Dragging would just select the text.
If the receiving program cannot interpret the metadata, and the plain-text version is not also stored in the clipboard, then pasting would fail.
Again, as I say, this is just a guess. We would have to get confirmation from the Skype developers as to whether this is true.
Have you tried pasting into different programs? (Word, plain text editor, Powerpoint...) If one of them can accept the clipboard contents then we may get a further clue.
EDIT: I found this program which inspects clipboard contents directly - http://www.peterbuettner.de/develop/tools/clipview/ which may also be of use.
Sean Ellis - uses Skype chat for serious work
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