Can't drag songs onto my iPhone

Hey everyone - not sure if I'm the only one who's having this problem, but I have the latest iTunes (10.5.3) and my iPhone 4S is up to date (running 5.0.1).
I just purchased an album on iTunes, but cannot drag the purchased tracks onto my phone, even though it's showing in the sidebar. I had to go into iTunes on my phone and download them there. Is there some setting I need to check to allow drag n drop as well as iCloud stuff?
Thanks!

So glad to find this discussion - this was baffling me, too! I didn't realize that because I had purchased a new laptop, my iPhone didn't recognize the library on the new computer, even though I was using the same Apple iTunes account. I checked the manual management box as suggested, and my iPhone library now has to be rebuilt, which will take awhile, but I can deal with that. It's working. Thanks!

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