Importing issues from itunes into garageband

I am having trouble importing songs from Itunes into garageband. This has happened sometime within the last 3-4 weeks or so and the first time I noticed it was today. It won't let me click and drag from itunes. It just bounces back.  I am able to go into my finder and click & drag the file, so it's not a copyright issue...besides, I tried dragging from itunes a song I've already used in garageband and it's not working either. I updated itunes yesterday...could this be the problem???
I haven't updated to iLife..to be honest, don't really know much about it, because every time I click on the "tell me more" tab, it says it can't redirect me to the page that has the info on it ....*Gahhh* frustrating!  ...could there be some kind of plug-in or something missing?  I'm not super-techy, but I can do enough to get me by...Any help you guys can provide me with would be greatly appreciated!!

I am also having the same problem.  i can drag the files out of the music folders but I can not drag any file out of the itunes screen.  The files are .mp3 and are in lowercase letters.  I tried a recommended fix where the files were reconverted in iTunes, but trying conversions in both .mp3 and .aiff did not work. Also, trashing a certain preference file was recommended on a discussions board but that did not work either. Until there is a solution, I'll have to work in Audacity. 

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