Unable to use clipboard during screen sharing

I was wondering how to use the clipboard function on the screen sharing toolbar. I have all Macs, running leopard. I've tried copying a file on my iMac, then remoting into my son's Macbook with screen sharing. On the screen sharing toolbar, there is a button labeled "send contents to remote clipboard" I click that and can see the file in the remote clipboard. But, when I right click "Paste item" on the remote desktop, I get an error "The items on the clipboard cannot be pasted to this location. One or more of the items may have been deleted or are no longer available"
I got a feeling I'm doing something wrong, but not sure what it is. Any advice would be appreciated.

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