ITunes won't drag and drop - AGAIN!!

I have the current iTunes on a MacBook Pro running the current OS
On several occasions, and now it's happening again, iTunes will not allow me to drag even one, let alone a batch, of tracks within or to playlists.
It's not because a column is sorted - checked that.
Just using the trackpad or a mouse - neither works.
One time an Apple person talked me through removing com.apple.itunes.plist from the Library and that solved the problem. I have had to do this at least once more since, but it does not help this time.
A great pain when I am using iTunes to present a playlist and I need to make changes on the fly.

Lets run down a list of possibilities:
1) You are using iTunes 6 here, correct?
2) You did not say whether or not you are running in auto-sync, manual management, or "Enable Disk" mode. If you left it in the default mode as installed (auto-sync), then after dropping your movies into iTunes (or adding them to the Library), simply connect your iPod and allow it to auto-sync (mirror) the current contents of iTunes. (You can also try "Update iPod" option under the File menu, but I have found it unreliable -- possibly owing to "sleeping" iPod.)
3) Not sure if your reference to "dropping the movie on the iPod" is a reference to the iPod desk icon in manua/disk enabled mode or the iPod "Source" reference/associaed contents list in iTunes. Could you clarify where you are attempting to "drag 'n drop" and/or the selected sync mode of operation in your iPod Preferences.
4) As to conversion to iPod compatible formats, recommend you stick with MoviesForMyPod and/or iSquint if you are restricted to QT Pro 6 and not sure what settings to use for MPEG4 preset collection/QuickTime Movie full manual mode.

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