No Longer Able To Drag Files/Songs/Photos etc.

I recently had a start up issue which was resolved by an Apple Genius at my local Apple Store but since he waved his magic wand I have been unable to drag files on the desktop, songs into playlists in itunes, photos into folders in iphoto etc.
If I hold down the trackboard on the desktop and drag it I can draw a box to highlight various files but that it is.
I recently posted this as part of another topic and had suggestions regarding resetting the PMU and trying the different gestures within system preferences > keyboard and mouse but without any joy.
If I plug in a USB mouse the same issue remains so presumably it is not a problem with the trackboard.
If anyone can help me it would be much appreciated.

Just to be certain, you DID boot into Safe Mode and then restart normally and repair permissions?
It's going to be difficult to back things up without doing an out-and-out clone to a FireWire external drive, since you don't have the capability of dragging and dropping to a CD.
However, you could try this:
First go to the Finder and select your Home Folder-the one with the house icon. From the File menu, choose Create Archive of "yourshortusername" and see if it compresses it to a manageable size. Once you have the archive of your Home Folder completed, restart into OS 9 and locate that zipped file on your hard drive. See if you can burn it off to CD(s) from the Finder in OS 9.
Needless to say, I've never tried to do this, so I can't guarantee that it will work, but it's worth a try.
This is a system-wide corruption, since it is the same for a new user, so it's not a preference file or something easily corrected (besides which, the normal procedure for troubleshooting preference files is to DRAG them to the Desktop-not possible for you).
Do you happen to have DiskWarrior 4.0? If so, it occurs to me that now would be a good time to use it.

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