Cannot drag and drop objects

I starting having an issue with dragging/dropping objects on my screen a few days ago with my Macbook Pro. Say, for instance, there is a document on my desktop that I want to move to another location on my desktop or to a folder...when I left click on the document, a ghost of it appears on my cursor...I can move it around, but I cannot drop it. It takes several hits of the ESC key and clicks of the left mouse button to return the cursor to it's normal state, which also causes the ghost of the object to rush back to the original object icon instead of where I want to drag it. It does not matter if I use the touch pad on the laptop, my wireless house, or my wired mouse, which tells me it is a system issue and not a hardware issue. I am using 10.6.8. I have not voluntarily changed any mouse or desktop settings at all. I also noticed that when I move my cursor to the top left corner, it does not put the computer in a screensaver mode as I have it set up to do. I checked the screen settings and it is still set up to go to the screensaver when I move the cursor to that location. Does anyone know how to fix this?

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Enable guest logins and log in as Guest. For instructions, launch the System Preferences application, select “Help” from the menu bar, and enter “Set up a guest account” (without the quotes) in the search box.
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