Problems duplicating pages in CS5

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I'm having big problems with certain basic operations involving copying pages. Here's the first problem: I'm unable to duplicate a page by dragging and dropping. The manual says that to duplicate a page, you merely hold down Alt, click the page icon or page number, then drag and drop. When I do this, all that happens is that it moves the page rather than copying it. I can, however, use this method to duplicate two or more pages. But that creates a mess and wastes time. Anyone else have trouble doing this?
The second problem occurs when I use the Duplicate page command. I can indeed duplicate a single page by selecting the page icon, right clicking and choosing Duplicate Page. I can do the same with multiple pages. The problem is that it corrupts the positioning of the layout by shifting everything left or right by a half inch or so. This occurs when the duplicated page is added to the end of the document. As I duplicate pages through successive generations, these shifts accumulate over time. It seems like a code bug where it's trying to shift the page left or right to properly position the gutter yet it misidentifies an even page as odd or vice versa and shifts in the wrong direction.
A partial work-around is that I can successfully duplicate two or more pages by dragging and dropping (instead of the Duplicate command). As long as I don't move them to the end of the document, it's OK. The problem is this won't work for single pages because dragging/dropping won't copy single pages (as I mentioned above). So I still can't just simply duplicate a page when I need to. Argh.
Comments anyone? Am I doing something wrong or does ID have serious shortcomings involving page duplication?
I'm running XP Pro SP3 on a 3.4 GHz P4, 4GB, Intel chipset, NVidia GeForce 6600. I ran the latest Adobe update to ID CS5 7.0.3.
Any help appreciated. Thanks.

Thanks for the responses, folks, I do appreciate it. It definitely looks like a bug to me.
Here's an example. I create a new document. I hold down Alt, click on the page, drag and drop. It copies it OK. I now have two separate pages, neither one of them is a spread. I alt-drag-drop one of them again, this creates a third page, now part of a 2-page spread. At that point, the code starts to fail. I can continue successfully copying page one, but none of the other pages. For example, I can try either of the two pages in the spread and all that happens is they move - not copy. I can select a pair of pages, or 4, 5, 6 or any other number, drag and drop to copy them. This only works around half the time. For example, I select four pages, alt-drag-drop and all that happens is they move and I'm left with two pages selected (instead of four), now in a different location. I can repeat this experiement again and again selecting, alt-dragging and dropping. I may do 5 or 10 in a row which only MOVE, not COPY. I may then get lucky and get a string of them that do copy successfully. Or sometimes it alternates randomly.
It doesn't matter if I use the Alt method or drag the pages to the icon at the bottom of the pages window. Same statistical results. In no case will the software ever copy (drag) a single page which is part of spread. And once again, if I select one page from a spread and say "Duplicate page", it typically puts the dupe at the end of the sequence with the content shifted left or right some random distance, corrupting it.
I tried upgrading to 7.0.3, I tried trashing my prefs, I've tried many things. I'm not crazy nor do I need a book, but thanks for the suggestion. Perhaps I'll pick one up down the road. I confess I'm not a graphic artist and I'm only in my first month working with InDesign. But I recently worked a decade at a leading (rival) multimedia editing software manufacturer after 22 years in the biz and I write C code during the day to pay the bills. I know how to test code and I know when something is working inconsitently or not as specified. I may not have all the answers but all I can do is report what I observe and hope someone can solve the mystery. This would help me (and any others with the issue) as I'm doing 250+ page books and could really use a feature where I can copy a page. Not play a silly game of roulette trying to copy spreads or groups of pages. Just one page would be nice. And once again, thanks for the suggestions, I do appreciate it.

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