Screen sharing clipboard transfers working for anyone?

greetings,
i use screen sharing on a number of macs, which i find enormously helpful... 2 MBPros w/ 10.5.6, 1 G5 w/ 10.5.5, 1 Powerbook w/ 10.4.11...
i've never gotten the clipboard transfers to work on any of these macs with any combination... does it work for anyone else? is there some kind of option to enable it?
thanks-

I was having trouble with this until I had an "Ahh!" moment... I expected that when you select 'Send Clipboard' or 'Get Clipboard' that Screen Sharing would paste the other computer's clipboard contents. It never seemed to 'appear' where my cursor was. Once I realized that I needed to actually 'paste' the clipboard after the transfer, it works like a charm (although it still feels like an extra step to me).
Just a thought.

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