diff --git a/IkiWiki/Plugin/cutpaste.pm b/IkiWiki/Plugin/cutpaste.pm
index 4a8817168..0f6ea0b1f 100644
--- a/IkiWiki/Plugin/cutpaste.pm
+++ b/IkiWiki/Plugin/cutpaste.pm
@@ -5,10 +5,9 @@ use warnings;
 use strict;
 use IkiWiki 3.00;
 
-my %savedtext;
-
 sub import {
 	hook(type => "getsetup", id => "cutpaste", call => \&getsetup);
+	hook(type => "needsbuild", id => "cutpaste", call => \&needsbuild);
 	hook(type => "preprocess", id => "cut", call => \&preprocess_cut, scan => 1);
 	hook(type => "preprocess", id => "copy", call => \&preprocess_copy, scan => 1);
 	hook(type => "preprocess", id => "paste", call => \&preprocess_paste);
@@ -23,6 +22,22 @@ sub getsetup () {
 		},
 }
 
+sub needsbuild (@) {
+	my $needsbuild=shift;
+	foreach my $page (keys %pagestate) {
+		if (exists $pagestate{$page}{cutpaste}) {
+			if (exists $pagesources{$page} &&
+			    grep { $_ eq $pagesources{$page} } @$needsbuild) {
+				# remove state, will be re-added if
+				# the cut/copy directive is still present
+				# on rebuild.
+				delete $pagestate{$page}{cutpaste};
+			}
+		}
+	}
+	return $needsbuild;
+}
+
 sub preprocess_cut (@) {
 	my %params=@_;
 
@@ -32,8 +47,7 @@ sub preprocess_cut (@) {
 		}
 	}
 
-	$savedtext{$params{page}} = {} if not exists $savedtext{$params{"page"}};
-	$savedtext{$params{page}}->{$params{id}} = $params{text};
+	$pagestate{$params{page}}{cutpaste}{$params{id}} = $params{text};
 
 	return "" if defined wantarray;
 }
@@ -47,8 +61,7 @@ sub preprocess_copy (@) {
 		}
 	}
 
-	$savedtext{$params{page}} = {} if not exists $savedtext{$params{"page"}};
-	$savedtext{$params{page}}->{$params{id}} = $params{text};
+	$pagestate{$params{page}}{cutpaste}{$params{id}} = $params{text};
 
 	return IkiWiki::preprocess($params{page}, $params{destpage}, $params{text})
 		if defined wantarray;
@@ -63,15 +76,15 @@ sub preprocess_paste (@) {
 		}
 	}
 
-	if (! exists $savedtext{$params{page}}) {
+	if (! exists $pagestate{$params{page}}{cutpaste}) {
 		error gettext('no text was copied in this page');
 	}
-	if (! exists $savedtext{$params{page}}->{$params{id}}) {
+	if (! exists $pagestate{$params{page}}{cutpaste}{$params{id}}) {
 		error sprintf(gettext('no text was copied in this page with id %s'), $params{id});
 	}
 
 	return IkiWiki::preprocess($params{page}, $params{destpage},
-		$savedtext{$params{page}}->{$params{id}});
+		$pagestate{$params{page}}{cutpaste}{$params{id}});
 }
 
 1;
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 27e0fb103..d6eebea78 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -24,6 +24,8 @@ ikiwiki (3.20100832) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
     of the rst plugin.
   * git: When updating from remote, use git pull --prune, to avoid possible
     errors from conflicting obsolete remote branches.
+  * cutpaste: Fix bug that occured in some cases involving inlines when
+    text was pasted on a page before being cut.
 
  -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Tue, 07 Sep 2010 12:08:05 -0400
 
diff --git a/doc/bugs/Error:_no_text_was_copied_in_this_page_--_missing_page_dependencies.mdwn b/doc/bugs/Error:_no_text_was_copied_in_this_page_--_missing_page_dependencies.mdwn
index 356f9155a..4535cf35d 100644
--- a/doc/bugs/Error:_no_text_was_copied_in_this_page_--_missing_page_dependencies.mdwn
+++ b/doc/bugs/Error:_no_text_was_copied_in_this_page_--_missing_page_dependencies.mdwn
@@ -24,3 +24,23 @@ This error shows up only for *news.html*, but not in *news/2010-07-31* or for
 the aggregation in *index.html* or its RSS and atom files.
 
 --[[tschwinge]]
+
+> So the cutpaste plugin, in order to support pastes
+> that come before the corresponding cut in the page,
+> relies on the scan hook being called for the page
+> before it is preprocessed.
+> 
+> In the case of an inline, this doesn't happen, if
+> the page in question has not changed.
+> 
+> Really though it's not just inline, it's potentially anything
+> that preprocesses content. None of those things guarantee that
+> scan gets re-run on it first. 
+> 
+> I think cutpaste is going beyond the intended use of scan hooks,
+> which is to gather link information, not do arbitrary data collection.
+> Requiring scan be run repeatedly could be a lot more work.
+> 
+> Using `%pagestate` to store the cut content when scanning would be 
+> one way to fix this bug. It would mean storing potentially big chunks 
+> of page content in the indexdb. --[[Joey]]