I just started going through the tutorials and am not able to get the Draggables example to work. His works in my browser, but when I follow the tutorial instructions it doesn't work. Could there be a difference with the mootools.js file I just downloaded and the series of javascripts he is calling?

You know what Mike, MooTools 1.0 just came out so it is possible that the draggables code has changed. If you download the JoomlaOS template you can use the mootools version in that file until the updated code is implemented.