I cant add songs to my iphone.

Hi Guys,
I cant add songs to my iphone from itunes. The Iphone is set to manually manage music etc but when I try and drag and drop music or video it simply does not allow me to. No error message or anything. My iphone icon in the menu bar just doesnt highlight as it normally would in blue and itunes wont let me add anything. The only way I have been able to add songs is to ask itunes to show track in finder and add from there which it lets me do but means i cant add playlists and is a bit of a pain.
Running on a Mac Pro os 10.6.8, itunes 10.5.1
My iphone is a 4GS but it also did the same on my 3 GS
A massive thanks in advance!
Cheers
Dave

Very vague.
What have you tried?
What happened?
Any info at all?

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