"Duplicate" and "export" default directory?

Please help me, I am going crazy here!

When I use the "duplicate" function in Lion, and want to save the duplicated file, or when I want to save a pdf-export of a file, then Lion assumes that the directory I want to save to is the same directory as *last* time I did a duplicate save or an export.

This is almost *never* the case! In fact, 99% of the times, I want the duplicate and the export saved to the same directory as the original file, and I would imagine most others agree.

But I cannot find any way to change this? It seems others are not as annoyed with the problem as me, so I might have missed some easy setting.

 

Thanks, but I already knew perfectly well how to choose the save and export location.

My problem is that I don't *want* to choose that location when it's incredibly easy for the program to guess where I want to save the duplicate file or the exported file.

I seem to remember that Snow Leopard would export to the same directory as the original file as default. And of course it didn't have the silly "duplicate file"-function, but the "save as..." default location was also the same place as the original.

 

Seriously, has noone else been bothered by this? I feel so alone. :/