WP7 - Drag & Drop with nested layouts - windows-phone-7

I've got a page design as follows:
The layout is as follows:
<ScrollViewer Margin="0" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Height="360" VerticalAlignment="Bottom">
<StackPanel x:Name="spQueuedWeapons" HorizontalAlignment="Left" VerticalAlignment="Bottom">
<ItemsControl ItemsSource="{Binding QueuedCombinations}" HorizontalAlignment="Left">
<ItemsControl.ItemTemplate>
<DataTemplate>
<Image Source="{Binding ImageName}">
<i:Interaction.Behaviors>
<ex:MouseDragElementBehavior ConstrainToParentBounds="False" />
</i:Interaction.Behaviors>
</Image>
</DataTemplate>
</ItemsControl.ItemTemplate>
</ItemsControl>
</StackPanel>
</ScrollViewer>
The problem I'm seeing is that the MouseDragElementBehavior seems to be visually constrained to the bounds of the ScrollViewer.
I want to be able to drag the green boxes to the blue drop target.
The only options I've thought of so far have been to remove the containing ScrollViewer or to simulate the StackPanel layout programmatically.
I'd rather not add manual button based scrolling or programmatic layout if possible.
Does anyone have any ideas?

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I've spent a lot of time trying to understand and to implement something that looks easy.
In my WP7 application, I have a button that displays a context menu after a long tap. As this context menu is bound to a list, the number of items can be huge. Until now, I haven't been able to add a scroll viewer around my data template. But I have tested that if the data template was not there, it should work fine.
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