Drag and drop stopped working

I have a windows PC with windows 7
I am using iTunes 10
everything was working fine yesterday and then suddenly, when I try to drag and drop items from iTunes to my iPod classic I am unable to do so
If I select the songs to drag and hover over the playlist I want to drop them into, the cursor shows the no entry sign (circle with diagonal line), and am unable to do so
Everything is set up to manually manage music and videos
No updates have occurred on my PC
Have restarted iTunes and PC to no effect
I have plenty space on my iPod (47.2GB free)
Can anyone help?

Festy:
Welcome to the Apple Discussions. Dragging is dependent on the Helvetica font. Check with Font Book to make sure it's there and activated. It it's there and activated try deactivating and then reactivating it.
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