Cannot paste text into After Effects CS4

Hi there,
I've searched all over and I'm sure I'm missing something very obvious; but how do you copy and paste text from one program into an active text box in AE CS4?
I'm adding credits to a video and I need to put down some copyright info - and I want to copy and paste all the details so I don't need to type it all.
But I can work around that - I can just type it. However, I want to copy the © symbol in - and this is what happens.
I open character map, search for "copy" and select this "©" and click on copy, jump into ae, go into an active text box with cursor blinking, and Cntr+V for paste and boom! - there I have a whole phrase jump in - which was whatever I last copied from AE text box -- NOT what I just copied from character map.
But then I come over here to the forums and without copying that symbol again, I just hit paste and it pastes it right in here.
It acts the same way with other text, from browser, from photoshop (active text box - copy selected text).
I would assume there's a way to copy and paste, but what am I missing?

Allow me to be slightly embarrassed - you must be exactly right. This morning I went back and tried again, and it worked perfectly!
Still makes me wonder why it didn't work yesterday - I restarted Adobe but didn't restart the computer like I did over night.
My system:
Windows 7 Pro (64-bit)
Intel i7 X980 3.33GHz
750 GB system drive
2TB Media drive
12 GB Memory
GeForce GTX 470
Running Adobe Production Premium CS4
AE version 9.0.3.8
Font used: Adobe Caslon Pro
Copied from character map with font: Adobe Caslon Pro
Everything in English (US)
I had a project in AE that was 80 seconds long, no external video footage but all built in AE at 1280 X 720, 30 fps
I'm guessing some background process maybe messed the clipboard up? Anyway, it works now and I guess it was a one-time occurence. If I can ever recreate this repeatedly - I'll be back here!
thanks!

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