Copy and paste/drag problems

The copy and paste functions are not working with my macbook and neither is dragging anything. I have used the command v and also edit copy and neither are working. Help please and thank you!

A similar discussion:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=5773819
There's a solution identified there.
Reboot holding down the Shift Key (you'll hear a little series of tones)
Utilities->Disk Utility
Repair Permissions on your system HD
Reboot.
You NEED to do the Shift-Key reboot - just doing repair permissions didn't work for me.

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