Can't drag n drop songs.  Can't reorder playlists.

I can no longer drag n drop songs into playlists, nor can I reorder my playlists.  I've checked forums online and the common solutions are:
1. make sure your playlists or not smart playlists.  
and
2. click the numbers column and make sure shuffle is off.
The playlists I'm trying to affect are definitely not smart playlists.  And, Shuffle is definitely off.  I've tried everything I can think of.  I cannot drag songs to reorder a playlist. And I cannot even drag a song from my library into a playlist.  I have to right click the song, and then click Add to Playlist and Choose the Playlist from the popup menu,  which is very frustrating, especially considering I've had iTunes for years and could always drag n drop and reorder.  What happened?  Please help.

I'm having the exact same issue on my iMac after updating to 10.5. The first issue was getting the message "iTunes Library.itl cannot be read because it was created by a newer version of iTunes. I googled the solution below and it got my library back.
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"Go to C:\Users\(your username)\Music\iTunes and rename the file iTunes Library.itl to iTunes Library.OLD
..... then Open iTunes, go to "Help" --> "Check For Updates". Once you update iTunes, go back to "C:\Users\(your username)\Music\iTunes" rename newly created "iTunes Library.itl" to "iTunes Library.NEW" and your old file, "iTunes Library.OLD" rename back to "iTunes Library.itl". You will be able to open your iTunes and all Libraries with in."
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I thought I was in the clear until I tried making a new playlist today. Discovered that I can't drag and drop songs anymore. Have to right click on each song individually to Add to Playlist. Ugh! Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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