Combining PDFs - drag and drop errors

We regularly assemble large numbers of documents by gathering pages from 5 or more seperate documents using various drag and drop methods.
As it's a simple collation, we'd been able to simply drag a document icon from the finder to the corrent point in the final documents pages/thumbnail view to add it.
This works well when combining two documents - but when you combine three or more, you get a very strange behaviour:
Acrobat will continue to re-copy content from the first drag and dropped document, rather than content from the subsequent documents!
And this drives us crazy.
Our workaround requires us to open each document one at a time in thumbnail view and drag between these views - which seems pointless when you're moving the entire content of each document into the other.
Anyone else experienced this issue? Anyone have any insights?
(Running Acrobat 8.2.5)
regards

http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/401/kb401518.html

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