Attempt to drag a message and Mail instead selects multiple messages

I used to be able to quickly grab a message and drag it to a folder. Now I have to click and hold before the message is grabbed. If I try to do it quickly, Mail instead begins selecting the message I am trying to drag and continues autoscrolling and selecting all the messages below it.
I drag messages to folders far more often than I select multiple messages, so this is not a boost to my productivity. It breaks a pretty basic user interface convention too. I hope this change doesn't make its way into the Finder!
For the record: Overall I am VERY happy with Snow Leopard.

Hi Ernie,
Thanks for the reply. You're right (as was the original "helpful"-marked post) - dragging directly sideways does work to avoid changing the selection. However, I have a full vertical screen of message folders and my messages being dragged are almost always at the bottom (I don't use a preview pane), and I know for sure that I never had to drag sideways before dragging up before Snow Leopard.
The problem is even worse on Apple's 30" monitor, as you might imagine.
I simply need to be able to disable this undesired "multi-select mail items in the list with the mouse" functionality that (to my years of use) was never there in the past. I'm betting there is some preference setting I could put in, if only I knew what it was.
Thanks,
Doug

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