I think I figured out what I was doing wrong.. I was trying to drag photos to a Collection set (shoebox icon) and not pre selecting the images in the grid then creating a collection under the set with them and later on adding more by dragging in following steps.. I've made several collections now under 4.4 .. And will try to do the same with smart collections next..I'm assuming Lr5 beta behaves the same way .. If so I'll be good to go..
Is there any way .. Once you have all this collections structure created.. To export it from Lr4 and import your collection sets and regular or smart collections into Lr5 beta or is that something I should not expect, or try to do until the full Lr5 is available. If ever ..
Thanks Again.. JimS