How to reorder songs in a playlist?

itunes v7.3.2.6, running under windows 2000 on a dual p3-450. (Rock solid computer--uptime generally measured in months.)
ARGH! This is so incredibly frustrating!
I've got a few playlists that contain more than 100 songs. I'd like to reorder and move a song from near the end (say, #96) to the front of the list. And I'd like to accomplish this task within a few seconds. With the keyboard, if possible. I can select a song and drag it to the top of the "Name" column, and the playlist will (ever so slowly) scroll up. I'd estimate it at about 2-4 songs/second. At this rate, it's going to take quite some time (25 seconds or more in this example) before I'll reach the top of the playlist, where I can drop the song. Needless to say, this is far to slow to be acceptable.
In the world I live in (embedded software development), something like this can be done in about 1 second: I'd highlight the line in my editor, ctrl+c to copy it, ctrl+home to scroll to the top of the list, ctrl+v to paste it at the top, and be done. I don't think is too much of a stretch to expect to edit a playlist as I would edit text.
Am I missing some super-obvious and Apple-approved way to reorder the playlist?
Surely they don't expect me to spend a minute every time I want to move a song through the playlist, do they?
Is this problem all my own fault, simply because I have more than one screen worth of songs in a playlist? (Seriously, my mini playlist has 504 songs in it.)
I'll stop now, before I get into my other rant about how I'd like to reorder multiple songs (think, album) at one time.

As closely as I recall, go to 'Settings' to set up Shuffle, then go to your playlist and the tracks will then play in random order.

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