Can't drag files from external HD, Desktop

Can highlight and open items on my desktop, hard drive, external hard drive, dock, internet, and within programs, but can not drag a file at all from any (even can't drag a graphic from internet browser to my desktop. Isn't even showing the dragging highlight you get when dragging). Everything is just stuck where it's at. Can open folders, programs, etc...
Did I hit a combination of keys that created this? The mouse and keyboard seem to be working fine otherwise.

How are the EHD's formattted? I suspect they are formatted for WIndows machines in NFS, if I am correct they are operating correctly and cannot be written to. You may havee to reformat to Mac OS Extended (Journaled) which means yuo will lose all data on them.
Please be complete and tell us more info about the drives.

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Has anyone else experienced this problem?
I do a podcast and keep my bed music, sfx and whatnot in iTunes. When I need something I just drag it from iTunes and into GarageBand (4.1.2).
I upgraded iTunes last night (10.4) and now it no longer allows me to drag directly into GarageBand. I have to drag the file out of iTunes, then move it to GB.
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1. Original problem of not being able to drag from iTunes to GarageBand. JamButty, I'll try out your workaround... for this show I literally had to drag all of the files I needed out of iTunes into a folder... Then why use iTunes at all?! Really stupid.
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Message was edited by: brevon

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