I had big issues with copy and paste...even submitted a bug report, and
was told it was not a bug...but no help at all.....so I formated and
reinstalled ubuntu 10.10 and figured it out on my own!

I re-installed everything back to my original config and as soon as I
installed GOOGLE CHROME the copy and paste issue raised it ugly head.. I
un-installed and it went away....

Not sure if the BUG is with ubuntu or google chrome...