Moving clips around in project

I have ten minutes of clips in a project with a few titles and transitions. I want to move them around to create the flow of my movie, but try as I might, I can't drag a clip anywhere. I've tried everything, option click, alt click, shift click. The tutorial show just click and drag, it's not working.
Thanks!
Jim WIlson

Well, rebooting had no effect on my problem. I click on the clip, the yellow selection border comes up, but I cannot begin to move that clip anywhere. Have I got some function engaged that is locking the clips in place or something. If you double click on it, it plays the clip, when you try to drag it, nothing happens at all.
JW

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