Drag and Drop music from itunes to iphone fail.

When I attempt to drag and drop music from my itunes library to my iphone it no longer works.
I've performed a factory restore on my phone and uninstalled and reinstalled itunes to no avail.
itunes: 8.0.0.35
iphone software: 2.1
I can create a playlist and tell the iphone to sync that playlist but this is not the way I want to do things. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

You have to check the manually manage box in itunes:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1535
Here is a link to the manual as well:
http://manuals.info.apple.com/enUS/iPhone_UserGuide.pdf

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