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This has become much more painful than it needs to be. I suggest you do this:

Edit: Oops, I forgot to mention the starting point: the code at post #11.

1. Update the existing code to use...

It appears that you didn't have this drag and drop thing as wired as you originally thought, and I can't see that you've made any progress in this thread. To move forward, I suggest you post some...

That's just logic:

if ( imageMatchesWords )
{
// accept it
}
else
{
// put it back where it came from
}

Possible? Yes.

Java Drag and Drop Tutorial.