Drag n Drop in Safari

I used to be able to grab the site icon next to the url in Safari's address bar and drag it into a web form (such as when posting in a phpBB forum or creating an article in WordPress) in order to place a link. Suddenly, this no longer works. However, I can still drag it to my desktop.
I created a user account to test the problem and have the same issue there. I'm running OS X 10.5.8 and Safari 5.0.3 on my Mac.
Can anyone tell me what is wrong? It worked fine until a few days ago.

Go to ~/Library/Caches/com.apple.Safari.
Move the cache.db file from the com.apple.Safari folder to the Trash.
Relaunch Safari.
If that doesn't help, try troubleshooting the Safari .plist file.
Quit Safari.
Open a Finder window. Select your Home Folder in the Sidebar on the left. It has a small house icon. Then open the Library folder then the Preferences folder. Move the com.apple.Safari.plist file from the Preferences folder to the Desktop.
Now launch Safari. Try a webpageIcon.

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