Can't Paste Develop Settings to Multiple Photos

I'm running Lightroom V3.2, and I have about 100 pictures I took at a concert. I tweaked the exposure, brightness, etc, and the noise reduction, and copied the develop settings. If I paste the settings onto any one photo, the paste works great. However, I want to paste these settings to all 100 photos at once. In the filmstrip, I select multiple photos, and no matter how I paste it (typically with the big paste button on the lower left of the develop screen) the settings are applied to only the right-most selected photo in the filmstrip. I've tried everything I can think of but I can't get the settings to apply to multiple photos at once. Any suggestions?
Thanks!
John

That did it, thanks for the speedy reply!!!
Wow, is that functionality confusing though...
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