No more duplicating pages in a PDF in Preview?

Maybe I'm the only person in the world with this need, but I am really going to be in a world of hurt without it.
I need to have a particular one-page PDF used multiple times throughout a multi-page PDF (it's the order of worship repeated multiple times through a collection of the digital copies of all the music to be used in the worship service). In Leopard and before, it was simply a matter of option+drag to create multiple copies of the service plan. Now, however, I can't seem to find a way to do this AT ALL. This is a HUGE impedement to my work flow! Any ideas? (Saving my PDF multiple times as actual separate files on my hard drive is just WAY too inelegant as solution--it's what a Windows user might do--so if that's the only idea anyone can come up with, keep that recommendation to yourself. I'm just not going to stoop that low--there HAS to be a better way!)
So, if the question isn't obvious, here it is: In the new(ish) version of Preview, how do I duplicate a page? Or, is there some way to use the same PDF file multiple times in a PDF?
NOTE: option+dragging thumbnail does not do this. At all. The little + badge shows up with the ghosted page image, but the duplicate never materializes.

macmikey wrote:
it was simply a matter of option+drag to create multiple copies
It still is on my machine. I replicated Llessur999's actions with the same results.
(1) Single-page PDF: Cannot duplicate pages by option-drag in Sidebar. (However, I can convert a single-page PDF to multi-page PDF with Edit > Insert Blank Page.)
(2) Multi-page PDF:
(2.1) Can duplicate any page by option-drag in Sidebar.
(2.2) Can drag-and-drop repeatedly the same PDF (single- or multi-page) from Finder to Sidebar, and it is added to the open PDF document each time.
It seems to me that this pretty much takes care of the workflow you described.
Your issue is not changing your workflow, but troubleshooting Preview and PDF. To begin with, I'd want to make sure there's no problem with the PDFs themselves, so I'd create a few test files from, say, TextEdit, using Print > Save as PDF, and then use them in Preview to see if the problem persists. If it does, then it's the usual routine -- delete Preview's prefs (there are three), if that doesn't work, the guest account, and so on.
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