Organization Problems. Can no longer put songs in playlists.

First
"Why am I reposting my earlier question?"
ANSWER:
1. I had to post my question a second time because as you can see my first post isn't showing as a question anymore nor does it allow me to recheck the "box" that turns my post into a question.
2. I received suggested answers via a "popup". The answers were dated 2006 and 2008.
3. While some questions may be able to have answers from that long ago, my question requires a 2011 answer.
I knew how to drag songs to my playlist in 2008!
4. The saddest part is while Apple is sending me expired answers from 2006 and 2008, Ask.com already has a thread on this subject.
Second: Please help me with my original question.
How do I select multiple songs and move them to a playlist?
1. I was shocked when I went into Itunes and I could not drag any of my songs from one playlist to another. I clicked and tapped and held down the cntrl/shift key. Until yesterday, I would have told you I was extrememly confident in my Itunes skills. It is one thing to not realize that this would be a problem but then to have NOTHING in the "help box" that addressed this common issue.
2. I teach "Writing in the Workplace" so I know that I exhausted the Itunes "help" box as well as anyone could.
3. I manually manage my music and I am going to continue to manually magage my playlists due to organizational needs.
4. AND I need to move songs to playlists WITHOUT activitating Ping.
5.. I feel like Apple is bullying me into using PING. I say this because the Itunes help section DOES have instructions on how organize my playlist IN PING.
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Thanks for responding!
My question is the Headline and Is repeated as the 2nd header.
Second: Please help me with my original question.
How do I select multiple songs and move them to a playlist?
I have songs in my "music" playlist and all I need to do is move them to my "marathon" playlist.
Obviously, there has been an upgrade that changed the basic operation something that has my songs locked in place. However, nothing appears in the "help" that remotely answers my question.
I am just really sad it has taken me so long for something so simple and that I had to post here for something that should have been in "help" before the change was allowed to even happen.
Soooo....too make a short question even longer I had to run my 1/2 marathon without music this morning and I am not closer to getting those pesky music files to move from one playlist to another.
Hope you can help! I got so many hits last night but no one even said "boo". I think it is because my first message was marked "solved"

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