Copying in OS X Lion 10.7

Hello,
I'm having problems when try to copy multiple files from one location to another that contains some of the files I want to copy. Here si an Example,
If I have 345 files on a folder A and have 412 files in Folder B , in this case I have 87 files that are the same ones in both folders, when I try to copy in OS X 10.6 and below (even OS 9!!) the finder shows a copy warning dialog box with this options "apply to all check box, Don't Replace or Skip and Replace Buttons" but in OS X Lion I have no "Skip nor Don't Replace" Buttons, instead I have a "Keep Both Files" Button and I can't syncronize my files, so I must check file to file to know wich ones are already there, this is important backwards in usabilty because you don't want to replace newer files with old ones just because their name is the same.
Do anyone knows how to solve this? Is there a modify key to get the "Don't Replace" button back in the copy dialog box?
Thanks a lot!

I just encountered this tonight. Why on earth isn't this more of an issue for more people?
I sat down tonight to do some serious work archiving media files off various cameras and other sources- some files are already copied, others aren't.
This stupid change makes it absolutely impossible for me to do this task- I can't just mass-replace files that are already on my drives, many of them I've retouched with Photoshop. I don't have the drive space to spare for so many duplicates. Rather than the task of copying over 100's of files in a matter of mere seconds- only the non duplicates- I'd have to spend hours going through them.
I litterally have to switch back to Snow Leopard to get the job done. This was a really dumb change on Apple's part. I'm going to guess the same minds that though of this change, were amoung the same people that dumbed down Final Cut. Apple: PLEASE stop letting people that don't actually use computers to get any actual work done, make sweeping design changes to things that the rest of us use to get work done.
Very frustrated.

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