Can't reorder songs in playlist.

I would like to reorder my songs in playlists to reflect the order on the original taping but it resists all attempts, despite my following the instructions in "help". My previous copy of itunes had no problems, I could drag to the order I needed....???
Thanks.

Before you can drag to re-order, make sure that you click on the top of the left most column:
Thanks, but no go. I can't get that "bar" to appear that shows where the song is going to land when you let go of the clicker no matter what I do. It's some stupid setting, maybe I should resort to setting everything back to default settings... can I do that?
thanks
mark...

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