Copy/paste - how to assign a track? how to chose insert vs. overwrite?

i don't know how to choose the tracks on which i to paste a clip on the timeline. i seem to have no control on which track gets the clip... it is usually the first track but not always, and i don't know how to make it paste the clip on a different track.
on FCP 1 and 2 it was easy to mark the track you want to work on but i can't figure it out on the later versions. what i usually do to avoid this is drag and drop the clip/s, but... occasionally when i do that it chooses to insert rather than overwrite - again, i don't know how to control that either... i'm sure this is simple stuff, but i don't know the right wording to find an answer in the help menu... can someone please help me out?...

look carefully at your video tracks in the timeline
you see there is a thin horizontal line that divides each track
when you are drag and drop editing:
if you drop the clip above the divide then you get an insert edit
if you drop the clip below the divide then you get an overwrite edit
(notice that the cursor changes depending on where in the track you are holding the track ... above the divide its an arrow that points to the right, denoting an insert edit ie pusing all other clips down the timeline; below the divide and it points downward, denoting an overwrite edit)
by the way, if you are copy and pasting then a normal paste operation (Cmd-V) will do an overwrite edit, but you can press Shift-V to do a "Paste Insert"

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