Here are some links I've book marked on drag and drop: - Adobe help http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/html/help.html? content=05_Display_Programming_14.html
About half way through this page, they talk about what to do when you need to work around the limitation of startDrag only working on one thing at a time. - earlier post in this group from Doug McCune about this topic http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/message/126160 I think they are both similar approaches, but haven't really read them in a while.