Remember document position in Indesign CS4

How can I make Indesign CS4 remember the document position and percentage of a document as in CS3.

I do a lot of copy/paste from Word, Excel and Mail. To do so it is easy to put the delivered document next to my Indesign document.
Now I have to change back the position of the Indesign document everytime I open it.

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