Cannot change song order in most recent playlist iT11

Ok .. I just created a new playlist in order to burn to a cd and I cannot change the song order by dragging songs. A blue border appears around the outside of my playlist when I left click and hold on a song I would like to move and simply won't move. All previous existing playlists, created before the 11 'upgrade', I can still move songs without any issue as before.
What am I missing here? Never seen the blue border activate around a playlist before ....

I Can’t take credit for this, someone (riffraff)posted it long ago, but I’ve had to use it each time iTunes updates.
1. This will erase your play lists and music list. May want to have them saved somewhere to import from later
2. Close iTunes
3. I went to music folder then to iTunes and under this directory
4. I deleted iTunes Library files, library, extras, and genius
(Actually I just moved them to a new folder on the desktop if things go wrong)
5. started iTunes.
6. Got shaken when no songs in the music list
7. select add folder to library
8. select your music folder-probably iTunes Music folder
9. let run
10. I plugged in my shuffle, copied 5 podcasts to a playlist. Arrange in the order you want. Sync to the iPod. Detach and check. It worked for me.

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