🚀 go-pugleaf

Wade, I fully understand the method you're proposing. I'm just saying it's comparatively cumbersome. It's more steps and way more mouse mileage See, You're saying I should...

1) Capture a screen region to the desktop (Cmd,Shift,4) then
2) Bring Illustrator to the foreground (Cmd,Tab)
3) Bring the finder to the foreground (Cmd,Tab)
4) Navigate to the desktop (Click)
5) Drag & Drop the screenshot into Illustrator (Click,Drag)
6) Delete the screenshot from the desktop (Cmd,Delete) and
7) Empty the trash (Cmd,Option,Shift,Delete).

Instead of...

1) Capture a screen region to the clipboard (Cmd,Option,Shift,4)
2) Bring Illustrator to the foreground (Cmd,Tab)
3) Paste the screenshot (Cmd,V)

Then, only because CS3 adds a senseless clipping mask...

4) Select the hollow arrow (A)
5) Select the unwanted clipping mask (Click)
6) Delete the clipping mask.

I'm simply asking the community if there's a way to avoid those last 3 steps and make Illustrator behave the way it did before the CS era.

Ok, that's all the time I have except to thank anyone with an answer.