Click to set rotation point: Disappeared?

Hi All,
In CS4, I used to be able to click inside an image, hit R for rotate, then I could click on any area of the image and the rotation crosshairs would jump to that point. Now in CS5 that functionality seems to be missing. I have to drag the (annoyingly snapping) rotation point to where I need the rotation to pivot from.
Does anybody know if this is a feature that you can reactivate or is it gone for good? Sounds like a small thing, but I really hope they bring it back in an update, as I used it a lot and found it extremely useful. I never thought they'd delete features in an update (if indeed they have).
Tim

Yeap! I do confess. It was me. But I have approached it marketing style:
Easy way to crash InDesign CS5 on demand
so they had to react.

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