Changed permissions in Application folder

I am at a loss to explain what has happened in Lion/Applications folder. Since upgrading, if I attempt to move or delete an app,  I must authenticate or cannot proceed. Never happened in Snow Leopard. I repaired permissions but still get same, restrictive warnings. Is this a new thing?

More than that has been taken away from "old hands". It seems Mac would rather you used it and when it comes to stuff like that let the machine do the thinking. It will even quit applications to make more memory avaiable if it deems fit.
The further we go in this direction, the more I want to dig my teeth into Terminal

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    Click Mac OS X Utilities in the top left of the screen and click the Restart button.

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