Dragging Icons

Hi! I do have a problem with my mouse or my computer, I don't know what to do... when I try to drag an icon on my desktop or in folders or even in iTunes, it highlights the object but nothing more happen. HELP ME PLEASE!!!

There's a not-unheard-of problem with some early versions of 10.2 where a preferences/cache corruption or set of corruptions causes the sporadic inability to drag-and-drop on the Desktop.
There's a handy freeware utility that should fix your problem: Dragster
I never saw the problem myself, and updating to 10.2.8 using the OS X Update Combo 10.2.8 should eliminate the problem from occuring in the future. With OS X version prior to 10.4, it's highly recommended that you run Disk Utility/ Repair Permissions afterwards (and it won't hurt to run it before, especially in your case, after dealing with suspect preferences).
You may also want to look for an older copy of one of the third-party utilities that can be used to clear caches, run maintenance scripts, and th elike, and run it once a month or so to keep things running smoothly; e.g., OnyX version 1.3.1 for Mac OS X (10.2)

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I have solved the problem myself. Unable to see how to mark my post as "solved". This forum badly needs a "Help" page of a FAQ page.

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I found this by EvB on https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4830916
"Try this.
Open a Terminal and type the following commands:
cd /
sudo rmdir tmp
sudo ln -s tmp /private/tmp
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