maybe that the following behaviour is always reported. 1. open a new doc or an existing one with no(!) figure float. 2. open another doc with a figure float 3. mark in this some text with one figure float and do a ctrl-c (copy) 4. switch to the new doc and insert the text/figure float with ctrl-v (insert) 5. do a dvi-view 6. LyX reports that the includegraphics-command is unknown. LyX forgets to insert \usepackage{graphics} in preamble same for latest cvs Herbert -- http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/