Problems dragging songs to iPhone

Just bought the wife an iPhone yesterday and now getting the icon of a circle with a slash through it when trying to drag from my library into her iPhone. I've tried various ways of syncing, syncing checked songs only and manually manage songs but I still can't drag and drop. I've even closed iTunes and re-launched it ... same thing

When I first got my iPhone I couldn't add music other than by creating a specific playlist and selecting that in the playlist tab when the phone was connected. I hadn't investigated the iPod side of the phone as I have a Touch which I use for music and video playback.
A work colleague avised that I should change my settings to manually manage music and video and that way you can drag and drop your required songs on to the phone and delete individual files off the phone itself.

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