Snapping limitation in CS4

in Illustrator CS3, when smart guides were on, i could click and while holding down the mouse drag an object over any point on a path to "activate" the smart snapping features. then i could move down to another location and when my cursor moves into alignment (horizontally or vertically) with the anchor point i had hovered over, it will snap to a smart guide.
the new smart guide snapping adds the ability to snap to the midpoint of objects (handy) but seems to eliminate the ability to activate any random point on a path as a snapping guide. is there another way to get this working again?
hope i'm clear here...

Thanks Mike, but it still doesn't seem to work the way i need/like it to. it's tough to explain well but i'll try again. Currrently, CS4 gives you green snapping guides that pop on-screen when the object you're dragging around comes into alignment with the outer bounding box or midpoint of another object. that's it. what if i want to grab an object on a particular point and then align it vertically with a particular anchor point on another object and have those green snapping guides indicate when i'm in alignment? I could do that in CS3 and it seems way more flexible in that way.
I think i would like a preference switch to allow me to choose between CS3 smart guides and CS4. Often CS4's snapping throws up way too many snapping indicators when there are many objects on the page. CS3 wasn't as confusing.

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