"Paste in Front" Gap?

Hello everybody, I'm getting gaps between boxes when I paste in front (see screen shot). I've tried adjusting the origin point from the center to the corners and it doesn't help. It seems like it's offsetting the stroke width, which shouldn't be happening. Any suggestions?
Thanks!

Ok, I think I left out a step. Sorry about that. The paste in front actually works as it should, the problem arrises when I go to modify the size of the top copied path by grabbing the top left corner and resizing it. That's when the bottom and right edge stop lining up with the original shape. I thought it also might be the constrain proportions, but that didn't fix it. Should't those two edges stay anchored? Any other  ideas on this. I'm coming from FreeHand. This behavior has never happened when I use the same method to modify a shape. It keeps me from having to take an extra step of aligning edges. I'll try the pref. trash and see if it helps. Btw, I have CADTools 6 installed, so I don't know if that could possibly affect it at all? I'll uninstall those and see if it helps. Thanks again though.

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