Can't drag ringtone to itunes

Using Windows 7 and iTunes 10.7.0.21 I was unable to drag ringtones into iTunes. Whenever I dragged an m4r (ringtone extension) onto iTunes all I got was a slashed circle. After much fiddling and researching I found a way to get the ringtones into iTunes and into my iPhone.
Open Windows Explorer and search for "Automatically Add to iTunes" place the quotes in the search box so that Explore finds items with match all those exact letters. If you don't use the quotes Explorer finds items that have any of those words in them, it ORs the words. (I found two folders of this name on my machine so I had to try the following twice. On my machine the one that worked was C:\Users\My Name\My Music\iTunes\iTunes Media\Automatically Add to iTunes)
Copy your m4r files into that folder.
Start iTunes
Look in your Library/Tones folder and the files will be there
From the menu bar select Edit/Preferences and make sure Tones is checked
Select your device (iPhone)
From your device's menu bar select Tones and make sure Sync Tones is checked and either All tones or check your Selected tones
On the bottom right, press the Sync button (you may have to scroll down.)
On your device, go to Settings/Sounds/Ringtone and they should be there.
I hope this helps.

Right so i done exactly this and for some reason the "automatically add to itunes" folder created a "not added" folder, and then it further created another folder inside it named the time date i copy and pasted the ringtones in it with them then actually inside that one, so in short, they were decided by apple that they are not being added?
ways around this?!?!?! getting very annoyed at how easy this used to be not long ago!

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