ITunes refuses to let me drag tracks in or out of or within playlists

With no pattern, just nasty surprises, iTunes refuses to let me drag tracks in or out of or within playlists.
I have searched the Apple Support Communities and elsewhere and found no solutions which work.
It's nothing to do with Wacom - I don't have one. It's nothing to do with setting iTunes to manual sorting. It's not set to shuffle or repeat. It's just an ordinary playlist. It's not a folder nor a Smart playlist.
On one occasion I phoned Apple and a nice man told me how to display the Library (but it's now hidden again) and delete an iTunes preference file. This solved the problem for a while. But I have forgotten how to display the Library again and can't remember the name of the preference file to delete.
Anyway, the problem should have been fixed by now we are at V 10.6.3
If there is no solution then I am stuck with copy and paste - a very unsatisfactory system when I am playing a playlist live.

Found the answer myself (from a tip in another thread):
You have to reboot both your Mac and your iPhone...

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Now when I drag the mp3 over, the iPhone section stays gray and won't let me do it.
How can I fix this? I detest iTunes. I'd be in love with Apple completely if it weren't for iTunes, which is constantly broken and never works. I'm happy with my music stored in my own filing mechanism, with my own method of tagging them, and I don't want to conform, I don't want to "get used to it."
Please someone tell me how to fix this! (Before it messes up my iPad as well).
PS... Of course, in the time my computer broke and I bought the new one, Apple released yet another updated version of iTunes, which they forced me to update before I could even use it. So, I don't know if the phone didn't sync over correctly or the update didn't work.

Oh, also want to add that the PC I'm currently using is:
Windows Vista Home Premium Service Pack 2
My other PC was:
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My MacBook is:
Max OSX 10.5.something (the last update available for it. .8 maybe? haha)
Not sure if this stuff is important, but I thought I'd add it.

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