I can no longer manually drag music or podcasts on to my iphone 4. Help?!

i have a PC. First of all, the other day i opened itunes to discover that all of my music had disappeared from it. I then had to get it to find all the music and my computer and import it. I then discovered I have triplicates of multiple songs and cannot figure out an easy way to fix that. That's Problem 1.
Larger Problem 2 is that I can no longer drag songs from my itunes onto my iphone 4. I could two weeks ago, but can't now. There's definitely enough memory on my phone for the music. I'd rather not have it automatically sync my iphone music with my itunes library as the latter has 60+ gigs of music and i don't want it all on my phone.
Someone please help, this is quite frustrating.  (I'm also not incredibly tech savy, so please use simple detailed instructions)
THANKS!!!

itunes is up to date. recently updated it. could this be the problem?

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