I can no longer manually add music to my iPhone from iTunes; what happened?

Recently I have been unable to add new music to my iPhone from iTunes. I used to be able to just select the songs I wanted, then drag and drop them onto to the phone by hovering over the iPhone icon. Now I get a crossed-out circle icon when I try to do this. Why is this happening, and how can I work around it? I'm pretty frustrated, as you can imagine!

Thanks for the judgmental response, Dave. My favorite part was where you told me how to manage the space on my computer. My second favorite part was when you accused me to stealing music.
I have only synced my iPhone with one computer and its iTunes library. I download music legally to that computer, from mixtape sites, Bandcamp, Amazon and---GASP---other none iTunes sites, load it onto my iPhone, then delete some of it, because I don't listen to music on my computer. I listen to it on a device I purchased to play it. That device is called an iPhone. It's supposed to play mp3s.
Have I blown your mind?
But if I am hearing you right, you are telling me the iPhone is literally the only mp3 player in existence that doesn't and shouldn't have the basic functionality to have new mp3s loaded to it from a single authorized computer. That I should be happy now that I cannot load new music onto it, and I should just live with the music that I have already loaded, since I can't load anymore.
And that I should be happy that this basic functionality that, until the most recent software update, I have always had has magically disappeared.
How foolish it was of me to be upset about this! Thank you for showing me the light, Dave.

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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1311
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I have an iphone 3gs. Laptop running windows XP.
I have, for years, manually managed my music etc. I have the "manually manage music" box checked.
But when I drag music onto my phone in the sidebar, instead of getting the "+", at which point the device shows the spinning "synch" circle, I get a grey crossed out circle - the international symbol for "NO".
My phone has space on it.
Also, if I delete a song off my phone in itunes, it doesn't actually delete it off the device - there is no "synch" process. If i delete the song off the phone through the music ap, my computer/itunes thinks it's still there.
All i want to do is add an album, but this *** doesn't even do that. What is it, is my phone no longer supported by itunes because it's old?
Have i simply gone too long without buying a new phone and now it's "locked" (im being facetious, i know, but this is infuriating).
Please note, i do NOT want to "restore" or delete my phone. That is not a viable option for this sort of thing. You wouldn't get that in a hospital: "I've broken my finger."
"Ok, let's cut your arm off, and attach a new one"
I also do not want to automatically synch music - doing so will erase my music, and my computer library is bigger than the phone. I only want specific songs that i chose.

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