After dragging a song into a playlist, the playlist menu window just stays put and in the way. what gives?

So I'm putting together a playlist in Itunes 11.1.5, selecting songs and dragging them over into the pop-in playlist menu, as you do.
The first thing I notice is that the menu won't appear after I've begun dragging the chosen song and I need to grab and drag it a second time to make the playlist pop-in materialize.
That second attempt is always successful in that the song does get added to the selected playlist, but then the playlist drop-in menu simply hangs out, rather than sliding out of view again. It blocks the righthand third of everything and nothing makes it go away. the only respite is to switch over to the "playlists" view which, presumably because it doesn't have that functionality of the drop-in menu, disappears same. When switching back to the Album view, the drop-in menu will be gone, but my place in my library will be lost.
Annoying.
Any ideas?

Possibly a multiple tag issue. Try right click and Convert ID3 Tag > None two or three times, then Convert ID3 Tag > v2.3. You'll need to reapply album art, but I susepct that will fix it. iTunes works best with a single ID3v2.3 tag but some software creates parallel v1 tags, and it is even possible to add multiple tags for multiple languages. iTunes behaviour with multiple tags is somewhat unpredictable, occassionaly causing it to revert changes it seems to have applied.
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