Preview doesn't act the same as it did in Snow Leopard. So now how do I...?

Hi all,
I'm getting frustrated because Preview doesn't act the same way now as it used to, and I can't find the solution in the Help menu.
Here's what I used to be able to do:
1) I'm a composer/arranger for musical theater productions. So, as I compose or arrange individual songs, I eventually save them all as PDFs.
2) To create a master piano/conductor's score, I used to create a master PDF file, then open up each individual song's PDF, and drag the pages into the master PDF file. Immediately after doing so, I was able to view the new pages in two-page mode, in the context of the whole book, to make sure the page turns were the way I planned them (since I often lay the music out with quick page turns in mind for the pianist/conductor). If for some reason the pages were opposite from what I planned, I just inserted a blank page before the newly-added song, to make the page turns work the way I needed them to.
3) When I was done importing all the songs, I'd print out the whole score.
My current problem
What I used to do (i.e., open up two documents, and drag the pages of one into the other) no longer works the way it used to. Now, Preview seems to view them as multiple separate documents, even though they're under the roof, so to speak, of one document. Let's say I drag 3 documents into the PDF I want to use as the master PDF. Let's say that each document is only a single page. I can't view them in two-page mode. I can select Two-Page mode in the menu, but it won't alter the view. Now, if document #1 is one page, and document #2 is five pages, I can view document #2 in two-page mode, but not document #1 and #2, together. (i.e., ideally, I'd want to see the one-page document #1 on the left-side in two-page mode, and the first page of document #2 on the right side.
Also, saving is a problem. It used to be that when I dragged the new pages into the document, I could just hit "save" and the new pages would be immediately included in the master PDF file. Now, Preview treats everything as separate documents, so I'll import document #5, let's say, hit "save" and it'll want to save the changes to "document #5."
The only workaround I've found for all this is to select all the pages in the master PDF and hit print, followed by saving as a new PDF.
But, do I have to do this on every addition?!? I have 40 songs, a Title Page and a Table of Contents that need to be imported into one PDF document. And they're not all ready to go right now. I was going to add a couple songs each day as I get them finalized and ready for print.
Isn't there a way to just add the new pages to the new document without Preview treating them as a collection of separate documents?
Thanks for your help.
Kevin

Thanks Barney! It is, indeed, working for me now. It's different than the previous incarnation of Preview, with no explanation of the differences in the Help menu (that I could find, that is).
So, thanks for your help!
Kevin

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