Lost my drag and drop

Hi there.  I updated to itunes 10.5 on Lion ysterday, and I seem to have hit a snag.  I can drag and drop everywhere EXCEPT in itunes, which is very irritating (I sort of want to throw my computer out the window).  I have logged out and in, restarted, and repaired disk permissions, which I saw suggested before, but to no effect.  This seems to be an itunes only problem.
Any suggestions?

An update: Realized that my Wacom tablet may be to blame, when I saw that suggested as a fix.  I updated the driver, still no luck.
I'm unable to try it w/o the tablet, as my Magic Mouse is on the fritz again.

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