Cannot cut/paste or drag/drop

I have just upgraded to Lightroom 2.1 on my Mac so I hope that this isn't a dumb question -
After the upgrade I cannot drag and drop any image to a collection. The cut/paste options are gray so I cannot choose them and I cannot seem to move any image from within a collection. All of these worked fine with the previous version of Lightroom.
I have tried with a brand new Catalogue - same problem - I have tried with a new catalogue on a different hard disk - same problem!
I can edit the images - but I just cannot drag them in the same way that I did with Lightroom before. I have searched the knowledge base with no answers as yet.
I do hope that I am just forgetting something!

Hi John,
Yes, I am dragging from the image itself - exactly as I used to in 1.4
It is odd, but it is as if there is a permission problem with the file - but I am allowed to edit.
I would have thought that it might be a problem in drag and drop but the fact that the cut and paste options are gray too is a bit confusing.

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