Paste in place & Custom arrow shape?

I am utterly confused as to why there are no posts about this.
I have been a Acrobat 6 "stalwart" for several CRITIAL (to us) reasons, which to my amazement, don't seem to get much attention, so I am wondering if I am just crazy in thinking that these issues are really important.
Issue 1> Paste in Place - this functionality has been lost since Version 6, yet no one has really made a big issue of it. This seems like a HUGE time waster to me. We copy and paste the same information on HUNDREDS of pages. Loosing this feature would loose hours a week.
Issue 2> Point-y Arrows. I can't find anyone who has even raised this issue, but if you look at the arrows in Version 6, they are nicly proportioned, with pointy ends. The arrows in 7,8&9 are like lines with Triangles on the end - flattened and they basically look like a 3 year old drew them.
The arrows in the attached photo show:
Left = Acrobat 9 arrow @ 2 pt.
Middle = Acrobat 9 arrow @ 4 pt
Right = Acrobat 6 arrow @ 4 pt (Elegant!)
Do I have a bad Arrow module? or can I take the arrow from version 6 and put it in version 9?
And PLEASE PLEASE bring back Paste in place, without it, we're going back to 6!
SEPP!

I have asked Adobe more questions that I can shake a stick at, this included. Even mentioning that though we own 9, we continue to use 6 for more reasons than I can post here. In fact any decent research will reveal that for some reason adobe stopped listening to us, its customers, after version 6, so while I have suggested and asked for help in understanding WHY they downgrade their product, I have never even received a response that they reviewed or consider my points..... (I should also mention that we have the same problems with Microsoft, and as such continue to use Excel 2002 with no foreseeable plans to upgrade, ever - everything I need to do, takes longer, more mouse clicks and doesn't make me produce anything better.....)
I have re-submitted a request - although I consider It a bug - and I also consider & evaluate alternate products at every chance. Oh, and I still advise my colleagues to use version 6.
Thanks for the pointer.
SEPP!

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