Drag and Drop is not opening the highlighted folder so I can't drop into route folder

New issue since Yosemite upgrade:
When I grab any file to drag & drop somewhere, and move that file over a folder highlighting it to open a route folder to drop it into, it won't open the folder to reveal its contents. I can only drop the file into that folder. So it's one folder at a time. Man, it can take me almost a minute to get one file where I want it to go when there is multiple subfolders. This is true for any folder anywhere including the sidebar and within any application that opens a finder window for saving etc. It is very limiting and frustrating.
Also, it is only for my user login, the other users work fine. But I really don't want to have to create a new one.
Please, help! I would appreciate guidance from anyone, or at the least sympathy to know I'm not the only one.
My mac specs:
OSX Version 10.10
Macbook Pro Retina 15" Late 2013
2GHz Intel Core i7
Intel Iris Pro 1536
(also sorry about the category if it's wrong, there was no 'finder' category)
Stu.

Sorry, i forgot to write select RELAUNCH. If the newly created one didn't fix the problem, then something else is amiss. One way to determine that is to log into a good admin account, open up Users & Groups, delete the bad account, saving its data, recreating it with the same credentials, logging into the newly created one, and seeing if the problem's fixed. If so, then open the save data disk image stored in /Users/Deleted Accounts/ and slowly move plists from the Preferences folder into the new account's folder, restarting, and seeing if the problem reoccurs. Eventually, you'll isolate the bad or corrupting items. The procedure's long and time-consuming, but faster than resetting all the preferences for everything you've already set.

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