Can't rearrange items in dock

This seems not to be possible in Mountain Lion. Has anyone found a solution?

In case it's useful to someone else, I had this problem and found no solution that worked for me here or on other forums. I found that with the dock set on the smallest size and magnification enabled I could not move or rearrange the icons in the dock. By increasing the size of the dock I can arrange the icons as desired and then reduce the size of the dock and continue to work as normal.
This would be a good bug for Apple to fix...running 10.8.2 2.3gHz Core i7 15" mbp.

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