Strange drag and drop text editing behavior in Mail

Sometime when selecting text in an email and dragging it to a new part of the document COPIES the selected text to the new location rather than MOVES the original text.
Is this a bug or is there a trick to drag and drop in Mail?

Is this a bug or is there a trick to drag and drop in Mail?
No bug, no trick. You simply have to be careful so that you get it right. Select the text you want to move, then click and hold (pause slightly), and drag & drop to the new position. Simple, and it works every time if you do it rights.

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Hi. I really need help. THANK YOU in advance.
I am building a voting contact from in flash profession with AS3. The functionality will allow users to drag and drop choices OR add their own allow them to submit their TOP 5 choices.
PROBLEM:
1. Drag and drop text is not submitted when it is dragged into the editable text field.
HOW CAN I DO THIS TO ALLOW FOR DRAG AND DROPPED ITEMS TO BE SUBMITTED or TEXT THAT IS MANUALLY ENTERED.
This can be seen HERE: http://pttdt.com/winnipegcafes.php
AS3 Code used thus far:
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Makes the specified symbol instance moveable with drag and drop.
choice_1.buttonMode = true;
choice_1.mouseChildren = false;
choice_1.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, fl_ClickToDrag);
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stage.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP, fl_ReleaseToDrop);
function fl_ReleaseToDrop(event:MouseEvent):void
            choice_1.stopDrag();
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Makes the specified symbol instance moveable with drag and drop.
choice_2.buttonMode = true;
choice_2.mouseChildren = false;
choice_2.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, fl_ClickToDrag_2);
function fl_ClickToDrag_2(event:MouseEvent):void
            choice_2.startDrag();
stage.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP, fl_ReleaseToDrop_2);
function fl_ReleaseToDrop_2(event:MouseEvent):void
            choice_2.stopDrag();
/* Drag and Drop
Makes the specified symbol instance moveable with drag and drop.
choice_3.buttonMode = true;
choice_3.mouseChildren = false;
choice_3.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, fl_ClickToDrag_3);
function fl_ClickToDrag_3(event:MouseEvent):void
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stage.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP, fl_ReleaseToDrop_3);
function fl_ReleaseToDrop_3(event:MouseEvent):void
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Makes the specified symbol instance moveable with drag and drop.
choice_4.buttonMode = true;
choice_4.mouseChildren = false;
choice_4.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, fl_ClickToDrag_4);
function fl_ClickToDrag_4(event:MouseEvent):void
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stage.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP, fl_ReleaseToDrop_4);
function fl_ReleaseToDrop_4(event:MouseEvent):void
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/* Drag and Drop
Makes the specified symbol instance moveable with drag and drop.
choice_5.buttonMode = true;
choice_5.mouseChildren = false;
choice_5.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, fl_ClickToDrag_5);
function fl_ClickToDrag_5(event:MouseEvent):void
            choice_5.startDrag();
stage.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP, fl_ReleaseToDrop_5);
function fl_ReleaseToDrop_5(event:MouseEvent):void
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/* Mouse Click Event
Clicking on the specified symbol instance executes a function in which you can add your own custom code.
Instructions:
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The code will execute when the symbol instance is clicked.
send_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, fl_MouseClickHandler);
function fl_MouseClickHandler(event:MouseEvent):void
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            trace(box_3.text);
            trace(box_4.text);
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            trace(theEmail.text);
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PLEASE HELP

It can be fairly involved once you realize how many aspects need to be dealt with. You'll need to find a tutorial that teaches you how to use drag and drop involving targets so that when you drop something you check if it hit a valid target (textfield in your case) and then process your text into that target. You should try searching Google using terms like "AS3 drag drop tutorial" and "AS3 dropTarget tutorial"   Here's a link from the latter of the two that has links to tutorials that might help.
http://forums.adobe.com/post!reply.jspa?message=3462293

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I think I have fixed it. I still have to make more tests, but it doesn't delete the mails any more for the moment.
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