The pencil/pen tools do not remember opacity any more in CC

I make great use of the pencil and pen tools and although in CS3 (the last package I purchased before CC) those two tools would remember and use the opacity from my last stroke, suddenly in CC they don't. This means I need to reset the opacity by hand after every single stroke, or I need to have my last stroke selected and eye-dropper the correct opacity from a nearby stroke. This might seem like a small issue, but for someone who makes thousands of strokes a day for work, it can mean hours of extra time spent in tedium. Why did it remember the last opacity way back in CS3 and not CC?
Please help!
-EM

Evan,
We are not talking toggling between New Art Has Basic Appearance/New Art Maintains Appearance in the Appearance palette, are we?

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