Trouble Dragging to Place

I often place images in Illustrator docs just by dragging them from my finder. I've done it enough to know that it won't work if I'm trying to drag to a locked or hidden layer.
I'm working with a document that is not letting me drag to place. I can use the File/Place menu function without a problem. And if I open a new document I can drag the images like normal.
Something seems amiss with this particular Illustrator document but I can't seem to track it down. Anyone have any ideas? Thanks very much!

Its just not placing it. You get that little snap back effect.
I just noticed that I am able to drag it to another preexisting layer in the document. However, if I create a new layer and try to drag it to that, it doesn't work again.
Wade. LOL - I would totally do that had I not made 70 copies of the file that all need a different image placed!
Probably just a buggy file or something.

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