DW CS3 Mac: paste fail

Question

Just to get this off my chest. I've been using DW from CS3 'Web Premium' (cough!) on a Mac running Tiger, then Snow Leopard, for a couple of years. In all that time, DW will only paste in 'text only' mode in design view regardless of what application I've copied data from to the clipboard. This is a real pain when I'm copying links and text from another HTML doc in a proper HTML editor, or a RTF doc in a word processor file, or, as is the current case, from a Google doc, as I have to copy the basic text, go back to the original, right-click to get the link, go back to DW, select and create anchor. Yes, I've googled for a solution, and no, there's not one, other than 'upgrade'. Yes, prefs are correctly set.
Once again, DW is a massive fail on the simplest of tasks. If my employer didn't pay for the thing I'd never use it.

Answer 1

There is an issue that sounds very familiar to this but it is
closely related to Leopard as opposed to Tiger. Are these newer
Intel Macs running Leopard? If so there are updates planned for
this.
There is also another bug, I would have to check the kb
article again to be sure, but it dealt with a slow load time to
freezes when putting remote image locations in the documents (ie:
when you make an HTML email file). I don't remember whether this
issue was a Leopard issue or it could have been an Intel issue
which could be indirectly related to what you are experiencing.
If workflow is an issue right now I would say for your
business stick with 8 especially if there is not a specific reason
for using CS3 (ie: new feature). Then I would wait until about the
end of the year, early next year when the first wave of updates is
supposed to be released (mostly for those Leopard updates).
BTW, in case you were wondering, you can keep both
installations on there on the Mac because there are 2 separate
preference files in the library so this way you don't have to go
through re-installing again.