That's not a problem with SketchUp. It's a problem in the way you're doing it. If you copy from one while and use Paste in the other file, you have to click to drop the copy somewhere. Otherwise SketchUp doesn't know where to put it. You could use Edit>Paste in place and the copy will be pasted into the same relative position as in the first file. Uninstalling and re-installing isn't a solution to your problem.