Paste in place according to ruler origin in CS5?

In CS3 I could paste from a 3" x 4" document setting the ruler origin wherever I wanted it, and then paste in front to an 8.5" X 11" or whatever and it would paste according to where the ruler origin was set in each of the documents.
Now it ignores the ruler completely and goes by the document size...it will paste in the top left of the letter size document regardless of where the origin is. This makes it incredibly difficult to update my prepress files with new text or whatever from a designer.
I have to be able to set the point of reference for pasting. The way we work on things it will become too much of a time waster to use CS5 if there isn't a work around. Any ideas?

Adelaney, Jose,
"So it has been changed according to so many request and no one spoke up against such a change not even once that I can recall."
Hmm...for some reason Douglas Adams springs to mind:
"There’s no point acting all surprised about it. All the planning charts and demolition orders have been on display in your local planning
department in Alpha Centauri for fifty of your Earth years, so you’ve had plenty of time to lodge any formal complaint and it’s far too late to start
making a fuss about it now."
--Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz of the Galactic Hyperspace Planning Council
The subject has been up before, but no one thought of presenting the crucial evidence. Thank you for it, Adelaney.
http://forums.adobe.com/message/3127533
http://forums.adobe.com/message/2808105
http://forums.adobe.com/message/2275205
But there is still hope:
To change the ruler origin in CS5 to be the same as in CS4 and earlier, you may:
1) Find and open the AIPrefs (Win speak) or Adobe Illustrator Prefs (Mac speak) file; it is a hidden file in the hidden folder Adobe Illustrator CS5 Settings
2): Find and change the following two bits of code:
/isRulerOriginTopLeft 1 >>> /isRulerOriginTopLeft 0 (change 1 to 0)
/isRulerIn4thQuad 1 >>> /isRulerIn4thQuad 0 (change 1 to 0)
Note: This is a global change.

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Thought there are global rulers there are still artboards and if someone wants more than one artboard this would be expected behavior.
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I think most people would work in a more organized way and want to keep track of what they are doing in a more conscious way and simply select the layer they want in the layers paneleven if it might be slower it would also be less prone to pasting on the wrong layer.
We also just had some one post about selecting an object on the canvas and dragging the selection dot in the laayers panel to the layer they wandted it now to reside.
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https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform
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