Drag & Drop suddenly inaccessible?

Hey everyone,
I'm back once again with my latest conundrum ;D
We bought my father an iPod Shuffle for Christmas two years ago, and it's been working beautifully, although he hadn't put new music onto it recently. As in today. (It's been about five months since its last update, maybe more).
I plugged his Shuffle into my Mac mini and iTunes automatically updated the iPod.
Then, I tried to drag new songs to the Shuffle. No dice - I just couldn't drag songs.
Now I can't even drag songs into playlists anymore. I've tried restarting iTunes and my Mac, no dice.
Any ideas?

Okay, I am not sure exactly how, but this issue is now resolved. I installed XCode, MacPorts, and Wine, now everything is working again with no modification. I seriously don't get it, but, it works.

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My stance is simple. Every change Adobe makes to Premiere Pro should be positive to most or all people. If a change Adobe makes is negative for most or all people, then it must be removed.
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VERSION 1 (revert back to CS6)
*******Enhancement / FMR*********
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How would you like the feature to work?
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VERSION 2 (give us a choice!)
*******Enhancement / FMR*********
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How would you like the feature to work?
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verify & repair your startup drive
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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2055
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