Why can the song order in some playlists be rearranged and other can not?

I have several playlists, both drag-n-drop and smart albums. But on only some of the drag-n-drop lists, can I rearrange the playlist while others I can not. Any ideas?

These two condions must be true for a playlist to arrange the tracks:
1) Shuffle setting must be off
2) Sorting order must be set on the very first column (with the numbers)
Hope this helps.
M

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