[Leon Starr]

Okay, the font doesn't seem to be the issue. I just tried pasting an object style (text color) into some text in a text area with the font and color that worked before and still the paste didn't work with and the entire text area became selected (left text insertion/selection mode). What?

I whittled down my file to a single example for you to try out and see if you can reproduce. In the attached file try selecting one of the words colored in maroon, Copy Object Style, then select a blue word in the other text area and Paste Object Style. For me, it doesn't work.

(and I did try killing and restarting Graffle with no change in behavior)