Beyond Frustrated with Lightroom. How to order slideshow?

OK, I am absolutely at my wits end. After HOURS of trying to prepare this slideshow for work, I am totally at a loss complete what should be a SIMPLE process. I have about 30 slides in a slide show that need to be put into order. I want to just drag and drop them into the right order. For reasons that simply blow my mind, this CANNOT be done in a simple manner. The Lightroom Help file says:
Drag from the center of a thumbnail to sort in any order.
THIS SIMPLY DOES NOT WORK!!!
Reading the forum here I find many others with this problem. The solution seems to be selecting the fold that the slides are in and then moving them. The problem with me is that my slides are in about 5 different folders and once I select a folder, I cannot order all the slides as half or more of my slide show disappears!!!
WHO DREAMED UP THIS NIGHTMARE???
Sadly, I am at work now, this slideshow MUST be prepared now and Lightroom has COMPLETELY hosed me.
Version 1.4 on Windows XP.
I cannot believe that such a simple task is so mindblowingly complex.
I have been a user since day one and this has completely and totally destroyed what faith and pleasure I have had using Lightroom.
The help file FLAT OUT is WRONG.

Lightroom 2 includes a small HTML in-product Help file. It is basically one chapter of the complete Help system, which is on the web at
Lightroom Community Help. We post the complete Help system online because we can update it frequently that way. On any page of the online Help, you can click an icon in the upper-left corner to download a PDF, also kept current.
In addition to the topics that Jim lists above, some Help pages that might be useful:
Rearrange slide order
About collections
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