daveny5
The playback head is actually called the "Now Time". You probably have hit the Scroll Lock (ScrLk) key on your keyboard. Its usually on the Pause key.
Just to clarify, the Pause key toggles CPU Conservation Mode, which ill cause the Now time, meters and other GUI changes to update only once a second during playback, but the Now time will continue advancing, and the timeline will continue "paging" at that interval. Scroll Lock should have a dedicated key on the keyboard with the possible exception of some laptops.
One other thing to note is that there is also the function in Track View Options > Click Behavior for "Left Click Locks Scroll", and this scroll lock is independent of the keyboard scroll lock. It's possible to have both locked, and have to unlock both of them to get scrolling back. The Left Click Locks Scroll is disabled by clicking in an empty area of the clips pane in the track view.