Is PDF to Text Fixed in Lion

When Apple released Snow Leopard they broke Preview's (and all other non-Adobe) ability to correctly convert PDF to Text. Has that been rectified in Lion?
How to test:
Get a (or create) 2 column PDF with a multi column Table imbeded in the middle. Select All and Paste it into TextEdit.
In Leopard, and before, the result would be each 'entire' line of the PDF would be a line in TextEdit, so the first line in TextEdit would contain line 1 of column 1 AND line 1 of column 2 from the PDF. When you got down to the Table, all the rows of data would remain on a row, so you might have line 15 of column 1 AND columns 1 to 8 of row 1 of Table 1 AND line 15 of column 2. Because of spacing issues, the TextEdit version would not be an exact replica of the PDF, but the actual text, row for row, would be EXACT.
In Leopard, and before, if you held the Option Key down whilst selecting text in a PDF it would enter 'smart mode' (or column mode) and automtically attempt to determine the columns of data on a PDF page. This was fine if the page was simple 2 or 3 column text as when you pasted it into TextEdit, you'd get column 1 followed by column 2 followed by column 3, etc etc. This was completely useless if you had a Table, especially if any of the cells were blank, as each column of data would be rendered one after the other.
In Snow Leopard this 'smart mode' was turned On by default and can't be turned Off! More often than not the result is stupid, pointless and lacking any smarts.
This effects ALL PDF applications, such as Skim, and even Adobe Reader.
Currently the only way to correctly render a PDF to Text is to use Adobe Reader and select Save as... Text. ie if you Copy and Paste the text from Reader to TextEdit you get a different result than if you Save as... Text.
Unfortunately Reader is not AppleScriptable so the process can't be automated so the only option I have to convert 1000s of PDF to Text is to send them them to an old G5 running Leopard where Automator converts them and sends them back to me when finished.
Still reading too many bugs with Lion so waiting for 10.7.3, unless PDF is fixed in which case I'll upgrade now.

I may be the only one with this issue and if so then I apologize for mis stating the question. However, my iMac is less than 2 weeks old and as soon I upgraded I had the issue. I also saw the same issue listed on MacRumors which lead me to believe that others are aware of the problem. I just downloaded flash 11 beta and am no longer having that issue. Perhaps it is specific to the 21.5 inch iMac's i'm not sure. Hopefully others with similar issues will try the beta and at least be able to surf content without crashing. Thanks again for everyones quick responses.
PS. I don't care about Flash either and wish it would go away.

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