Reorganizing Bookmarks (Imported from IE)?!

I'm an ex-Internet Explorer user and I just installed Safari. All my bookmarks were automatically imported from IE - nice touch. One problem, though: I could never get several bookmarked folders in the right (alphabetical) order in IE and, of course, that's the order they were imported in by Safari.
In IE, there was an "Add/Organize" tool I could use to create and move folders around, but it didn't always work. (Hence the problem with out-of-order folders.)
Is there a similar tool, or some way I can move bookmarked folders around, in Safari? (I tried grabbing and moving them, but that didn't work out.)
Thanx.

Thanks, but that's where I was trying it: within "Show All Bookmarks". Doesn't work, at least not for me. Maybe I'm doing something wrong, but all I'm doing is dragging & dropping ... except the "line" indicating where it'll be placed when I go to drop it (Folder C1, from my earlier example) isn't in between the two folders (Folder B & Folder C2). Instead, it lines up _square on_ Folder B and ends up a sub-folder of Folder B, instead of its own folder. (Maddening.)
I decided to start the slow, arduous task of re-saving bookmarks in Safari as I go: each time I open a bookmark from the "Imported Internet Explorer Favorites" folder (already created by Safari in the left panel), I'd create a folder of its own and make a "Safari" bookmark in it in the left panel, deleting the corresponding "Internet Explorer" bookmark.
Problem is, when I tried dragging the bookmark from the expanded "Imported Internet Explorer Favorites" (in the right panel) over to the new "Safari" folder (in the left panel), the bookmarked web site opens up and I can't do it. And all I'm doing is a single, left click, holding the left-mouse button down ... and it won't drag - it opens the site! (Maddening.)
Any suggestions?

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