Dragging Images To An Album?

Hi
In iPhoto 9.3 under lion 10.7.4 if I double click an Event it opens and shows thumbnails of the contained images. From this view I can drag to an album in the sidebar. Good.
If I double click on one of the images in this view it opens larger to fill the iPhoto window. The docs call it "Full Screen View" ( different from "Full Screen Mode" ). Also good. (note this is not the Edit Mode)
Now I can see the image properly, but why can't I drag it to an Album? Surely it's the best way to scroll through photos and grab the best ones for an Album to email or whatever?
Thanks in advance
Lee

iPhoto menu -> Provide iPhoto Feedback for feature requests.
Regards
TD

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import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
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