Cs5 / duplicate and paste in place ?

Hi guys
sorry if this is a stupid question but I haven´t found a solution yet and before I go crazy I ask you
So, in cs3 (which I used before I bought cs5) I was able to duplicate an object into a new position. Does that make sense? mmh, so ie if I had an object and I dragged it while pressing alt and kept on duplicating it used the same new position to copy it to. (very handy if you have 20 lines with the same distance, so all I did was drag + alt and then duplicate them as often as I needed to.)
Is there any way to do that in cs5? Only way I found was use move it and then press cms+shift+m for move and then use the copy button. But this is very annoying since I have to open the move menu for every single copy action...
Sorry, this is a quite confused desctription of the problem, I´m not sure how to explain it in a better way..
Thanks, any help is appreciated!
teschka

CS5 should work no differently than CS3. Option/Alt drag to make a copy, then Command/Control D to step and repeat. Check your Keyboard Shortcuts (Edit Menu) to make sure that the shortcut wasn’t changed. If you deselect the copied object after copying once but before pressing Command/Control D then you break Illustrator’s concentration and it does not know what transformation you are duplicating.
The Transform Again command is pretty versatile; it repeats the last transformation, which includes any duplication, rotation, move, or scaling.
I only drew one circle, the rest are Option-transformations using the move, scale, and rotate tools.

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