Manually manage songs and drag songs from library into ipod

I always use manually manage songs in itunes. Everything used to work fine until yesterday. I convert a cd into the library, and afterwards drag the songs into the ipod. now when i try to drag anything from the library nothing happens, and I dont get any error messages. Any help would be appreciated.
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