How do I stop my timeline from jumping to a selection

When I'm listening to a recorded track I sometimes move ahead in the track and want to delete a breath or odd sound before the timeline makes its way to that spot in the track.  I used to be able to delete that little section while the track was playing with no issue.  Now when I highlight the area I want to delete and release my mouse the timeline jumps to the edit point.  I've changed every possible preference I could see that would affect  this issue and nothing seems to resolve it.  Has anybody else had this issue and found the fix?