Drag and Drop Text in FrameMaker 10

I just installed TCS 3 with Frame 10. Prior to this release I could triple-click a paragraph and select the following (or previous) paragraphs by dragging the mouse. Now in Frame 10 after I triple-click, Frame thinks that I want to drag and drop text rather than simply selecting text. It only selects the one word on which the mouse cursor rests and insists on prompting me to drag the text somewhere. If I triple-click and release the mouse button, then the whole para is selected, but I cannot select any more text because I have already released the mouse.
How do I turn off the drag and drop text feature? I'm finding this "enhancement" frustrating at best.

AFAIK, the drag'n drop facility is hardwired into the code, so you can't change the behaviour. However, if you've made a paragraph selection using a triple-click, you can select additiona paragraphs by holding down the shift key and single-clicking at the point that you wish your selection to extend to.

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