Can't Select Songs For My Slide Show

For some reason, the drag and drop slideshow music selection feature doesn't work. I'm running iPhoto '09 (8.1.1) in 10.5.8.
If I click Slideshow for a particular album and select settings from the bottom of the screen, I get a tabbed window with Themes, Music and Settings at the top. I go to the music tab and click on Play music during slideshow and select Music from my iTunes library. I then click on custom playlist for slideshow.
When I try to click-drag a song to the window that says drag and reorder songs here, it doesn't drag anything. It just selects all the songs above (or below, depending on which way I move the cursor). Nothing moves.
It doesn't matter where on the song I click (the music note, the track name, the artist or the time). Nothing moves.
Anyone have any ideas?

That did it. The number does not appear no matter how long I hold the mouse down, but once I move the song, the number pops up. It's always "1" by the way, but it now works--that's all I care about.
Thanks.

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