Removing playlists from folders

I have a number of folders in my source list eg "groups", solo artists", "comilations", and I want to remove all the playlist from the folders and put them straight back in the source list and delete the folders. I can't seem to drag them anywhere except for other folders. The reason I want to do this is beacuse i have accidently deleted folders with hundreds of playlists in and want to avoid this in future. Is there a way to select all the playlists and move them? the only way i can find to do it is to export each playlist one by one and then import them one by one which will take days!
Can anyone help?
cheers

Holy Moly - how did you figure THAT out? Even after reading the solution I thought the interface cue was EXTREMELY subtle. I liked it better the way it was.
Some Apple things are way subtle, and way clever. But sometimes they're very difficult and not so intuitive to new users.
I used to love the way the button at top right of iTunes changed depending on what you were doing. Sometimes it was browse, sometimes it was burn. Excellent economy of space. Apple blows MS away on things like that. But the new iTunes, not so much.

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