Indesign CS3 Paste Into

In CS2 you used to be able to copy an image and use the paste into function to drop the image into an identical sized pic box and it would be in the same position.
However using the same action in CS3 the image no longer does this, I understand its something to do with global and local positioning but cant see any way to set this in prefs or within the application, also searching the forums this doesn't seem to have come up any answers to this.
Is there a way round this or are we reduced to using copy and paste in place only, or adjust the selected image and adjust its co-ordinates manually to match original.
Any suggestions would be welcome.

I had the same problem. It's a global thing - I was trying to do it by coying an old box from somewhere else which I resized, and the group objects being pasted in (which I wanted clipped by the box) were resizing down. My solution was to re-draw a new box to the exact size I want, remove the old one I was trying to paste into, and when I laid my group objects over the top of the new one then cut & pasted it worked for me.

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