Actually the FAQ didn't address my concerns, however jonathn2875's response about dragging from the middle led me to the "fix" as it were.
The bars do drag from the middle, not the spinner... at least that's how mine are working.
This wasn't originally working for me though... so I poked around and noticed that my padding between hot keys was set to zero... so I had nothing to grab.
I simply kicked it up a bit, grabbed in the middle, and voila, everything could move wher I wanted it to.
Then I come here and find that Edragon71 had the answer for me as well
Thanks folks for the help.
Loving the UI for sure. Big props to you gm9