Preview no longer imports pdfs into each other.

Last year I could add pdf documents together in Preview to make a compilation that was much easier to print in booklet form as it avoided blank pages. Some time this year the behaviour changed, and now when I drag one open pdf onto the window of another, although on screen they look as if they are now one, even if I highlight each page in the sidebar when I press Print only the first one prints, which is a retrograde step IMO.
Is there a way to get the old behaviour back? This was a new feature in Snow Leopard and has been immensely useful to me, significantly increasing my productivity. It also used to be able to save the three pdfs as one file, but this too is no longer possible.
Is there a setting I can change in order to allow pdf import again? I can't even import files that last year I successfully imported to make new combined files, so I know it is not the pdf settings on the pdf file, it is definitely something that changed in preview itself in Snow Leopard in early 2012.

Yes, I have noticed the same behaviour, too. I am used to be able to drag pdfs onto eachother in the sidebar and add new pages or just re-arrange them. Now it's not possible any more. It looks like it is one document but when I save it, changes weren't applied. I guess it's a bug, but since Lion you can't tell appart bugs and features.
Additionally I get some strange popover-messages in the header bar about different versions and when I want to close the window, preview asks me multiple times whether I want to delete any documents. (If I say "no", I can't close the window. If I say "delete", the window closes but my documents are still there.)
Does anyone know whether it is possible to drag and drop two pdf's onto eachother to make one docoment of it? I just want to join two documents ino one.

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>I am trying to develop a site:
http://www.poweredupgamers.com.
Everything
> looks great on a widescreen monitor, but when I view it
on older 4x3
> monitors
> the divs run into each other and the spacing gets all
messed up. This
> occurs
> regardless of the resolution the monitors are using.
>
> I thought by setting up margins with % (5% left margin
for left div, etc.)
> that the divs would change in size to fill the pages
regardless of the
> resolution the monitor is set at. The divs do seem to
adjust for the
> resolution, but the monitor format appears to be a
different issue. Do I
> need
> to set fixed div positions or widths to fix this issue?
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> set
> them to ensure the page is filled properly (as little
blank space as
> possible)
> regardless of the monitor's resolution?
>
> Does it have anything to do with fixed sizes for certain
images inside
> divs
> sizes based on % margins?
>
> Thanks very much for any help!
>

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