Moving clips en masse on timeline (with imported audio)

Here's what I want to do: I just arranged a group of clips on my timeline. I realized after I did this that they are in the wrong place, so I need to grab them all (there're about 15 in a row) and move them to another place on the timeline. The thing is, they need to inserted in-between a bunch of clips that are all smack together. So what I need to do is create a space between two of these clips and then paste my new collection of clips in that space.
Thank you for your help!

Hi James!
You don't need to make a space for them to drop into.
Select all the clip by holding down the shift key while you click on the first and last of the clips, then they will drag en masse to the desired location and make their own gap!
If that location is too far down the timeline to be seen, park them in the clips pane, move the timeline, then drag them to the desired position.Make sure sure you don't click anything or you will 'unbundle' them.
As to your second question, you just need to lock the audio to the playhead. Place the playhead at the point where you want the audio to stay in relation to the clip, go to Advanced menu and click on 'lock audio at playhead'. Now the audio will move with the clip.

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I have used Premiere Pro 6.0 quite extensively over the years and have recently moved to Premiere Pro CS5.
With Premiere Pro 6.0 I could move/drag clips on the time-line and their linked audio would move with them. If I moved the video clip to another video track, say, above an existing clip, the audio would also move to a free audio track and not automically write over any existing audio. This would allow me to easily reorder clips on the timeline by simply moving them around and using other video tracks as temporary storage locations... and not lose or write over any other existing audio.
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Harm,
Your reply is not helpful. Just so you know, I have read through the manual extensively and could not find an answer for my question. AND that's why I brought my question here.
Perhaps I missed something in the manual. Would you mind re-reading my question and helping me if it is so easy?!
This has been frustrating for me for the last three months and I thought I would come to this forum for some expert advice. So far I have been told that CS5 is designed to be like this (does not answer my question), and now you tell me to look up the manual (again does not answer my question).
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Hey guys. Hopefully some of you will be willing to help me with my problem.
Basically I have a video that I've imported into iMovie just fine, and I have a separate audio file that I want to lay over the video. I've figured out how to do this (throw the audio clip into iTunes, then import audio from the iTunes library browser within iMovie). My problem is that I want to have the audio clip I've imported from iTunes come in at a certain point on my video clip, and I want to completely mute the video's sound so that I can ONLY hear the audio clip I've imported from iTunes when that starts playing.
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