Relative position of dock icons cannot be changed by dragging.

I have just moved from Tiger to Leopard and am trying to reorganize the dock I inherited from the older OS. In particular, I wish to change the relative positions of the icons. The old (Tiger) method of drag and drop didn't work ... any icon I try to move always snaps back into its former position when I release it. This happens in both the applications and folder categories on the dock.
I consulted the documentation for Leopard and it describes the same old way of moving icons as with Tiger. Clearly this simply does not work. I searched this forum with "dock icon" and didn't find any discussion of this phenomenon.
It looks like a bug. Has anyone else encountered this?

Hi Norman,
Try moving your mouse down when you're shifting icons. I find that if you keep your cursor at the level of the other icons (as opposed to below them), the icons won't shift aside. You could also try pulling the Dock icon you're trying to move out of the Dock region and putting it back in at the new place. It's not the most intuitive of behavior, I know.
Hope that helps!
—Hazy

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