Can't cycle through active Mail windows whilst dragging attachmen

Since upgrading to Mavericks, I've notice Mail has taken on a number of issues. The completely erroneous mail count in Mail Activity, I can live with. But there's another issue that's more troublesome.
In most, if not all, applications with multiple windows, I am able to use Command-` to scroll through the active windows of an app whilst I am dragging a file to that app. The normal scenarios for this are:
1) Dragging a file from one window in the app to another in the same app,
2) Dragging a file from a window in one app over a window in a different app.
So, in the case of Mail, this is what plays out. Let's say I wish to drag an attachment from one email (#1) to another (#2). Message #1 could be open in a free-floating window, or it could be within the main Mail window. I should be able to grad the attachment and then use COMMAND-` to switch over to the message #2 and drop it there. That's how it use to function (like the rest of OS X). But that's no longer possible.
Another scenario... I might be dragging a file from Finder and wanting to drop it into an Mail message window. Normally I would grad the file and then use COMMAND-tab to quick-switch to Mail AND let's say the message window is hiding behind Mail, I should be able to hit COMMAND-` to bring it to the forefront. I no long can.
What I have to do each time is move the main Mail window off to one side so that it does not end up completely obscuring the message window I am about to drag something to. Then when I bring up Mail with COMMAND-tab, the message window will be visible (even through in the background) and I can use the mouse (which is dragging the file) to bring it to the forefront.
I hope this makes sense.
Does anyone else have this issue? Is this common to Mavericks now? (I am on 10.9.4)
Is this a bug in Mail, or just something odd happening on my system?
Regards,
J

On Windows it is not possible to only cycle through the open windows of one application like you can on Mac.
On Windows you can only cycle through windows of all open applications via (Shift) Alt+Tab.

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