Drag and drop mail to mailboxes not working

Since upgrading to Mountain Lion on my MacBook Pro, when I attempt to drag and drop an e-mail message from my inbox to another mailbox (folder), has stopped working. I can still move mail to different mailboxes from the Toolbar / Message / Move to.
I'm using Apple Mail 6.0. I've looked, but do not see any functions in Mail Preferences or Mailbox functions that enables or disables this feature. Am I looking in the wrong place or missing something?
Thanks, Terry

It's actually much worst than that. THe MOVE command works only intermittently to move blocks of messages. This is true for both the MOVE button in the toolbar and for attempting tm move by using the control-click menu for a selected group of messages.
Mail 5.2 under Lion does not fail in this way. I am running two systems with the same collections of mail on each.
I moved back to Apple Mail because of the end-of-life status of TBird. TB has lots of bells and whistles that make for easy use and it has handled by 30K/6.5GB mail collection without difficulty. It also provides a lot of features that Mail does not have, including very helpful statistics during operations.
I looked at a variety of Mail replacements inculding all the commercial stuff. But nothing really dominates the marketplace andl the vendors seem frail. It's clear that the big money is in cloud-service e-mail handling, not apps to run on machines you own and control.
I imagined that Apple developed and maintained software would be more reliable and sustainable in the long run. It is distressing that the company's test and QA processes did not catch this but I suppose that Apple too is planning on letting Mail wither as their cloud service gains users and market share. Why sell an app once when you can charge a monthly fee for the service. It's perhaps cheeky to say but the cloud isn't a technological model it's a business model.

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