Spot Removal tool and syncing or copy/pasting

I may be missing something here, but I did a number of shots of the same scene on a tripod, and when processing the files I wanted to clean up some dust spots and then copy and paste or sync these clean-ups to all the other images. Problem was, when I pasted the spot removal areas, Lightroom only pasted the destination of my clone or heal, and ignored the source point I had chosen, which was often changed from the automatic area Lightroom suggested cloning from. This left me with a disatrous result with clearly wrong areas cloned over most of the dust spots, and I had to manually adjust the source point for around 450 spots!
If Lightroom simply pasted the destination AND source point for each clone/heal onto subsequent images, then it could have saved me about 1 hour's work. This seems like a crazy oversight to me. I haven't used it myself, but doesn't the Canon raw processing software allow this simple feature? Surely we should have it in Lightroom too.

Ah ha, thought this might be the case. What a relief! My faith in Lightroom is restored. However I still need the subtleties pointed out to me. I find the help a bit light-on in some areas. How do I manually choose the source point? Is it simply a matter of clicking on the spot I want to cover then moving the source point after one is created? If so, I definitely did this for most points. Or is there something else I have to do?
I have gone back into Lightroom and tried this again, and I can't get it to work. Source points not copied onto the next photo, even after manually changing the source point. Is this a bug in 1.1? Or is there some setting or preference or something really obvious I am missing??
Also, I have noticed a mouse-over on existing spot removal areas shows an arrow from the source point on some spots, and a "+" sign in the destination point on others. However when I zoom to 100%, more of these spots shows arrows instead of "+" signs... What does this indicate?

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