Custom Playlist Issue

Ok...I have a small issue. I have 2 computers with iTunes. On one computer I can drag the songs in a playlist around to customize the order. On the other I can not. I can only change the order by sorting by title, artist, album, etc... Any ideas how I can fix this? I like to be able to choose the order songs play a little more than just by sorting methods. Thanks.

If you are sorting on any column besides the very first one, it will always display sorted on that column and if you click Shuffle, it will display in that same order (because it is sorted on a column) but will bounce around the playlist.
If you select the first column and click Shuffle, it will shuffle the displayed order of the songs.
Note that if you have Shuffle selected, you cannot reorder the songs yourself by clicking on the first column.

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