How to move a partition to the top of Disk Utility pile?

I had Lion and SL installed in two separte partitions. But since I didnt like Lion I decided to erase Lion's partition and then fuse the free left space with the SL partition so I could have more HD space. The thing is disk utility only alows to expanded downwards from the down border of the partition. As you can see I've got tons of free space above Macintosh HD 2. 224GB. I want to move Macintosh HD 2 up so then I can expand it to "catch" all that free space. Do I make any sense? I don't want 2 Partitions, just one! With SL. But I can't expand it up only down
Please help guys Its killing me... didnt find any solution to this particular problem here.
Thanks in advanced
- Tiago

Like Neil said, you have to clone your SL off to a external drive, option boot from it, format the internal drive again so it's one partition, then reverse clone SL back onto it.
Doing it all on the same drive is rather risky and might not be possible if the second partition is larger with data than the first. A clone on a external drive will also give bootable backup in case all heck breaks loose.
Important thing is that the entire drive is erased, (select the Toshiba, Western Digital, or Seagate internal "media" on the far left side) as there is a hidden Lion Recovery partition that also needs to be removed.
So you really have 3 (actually 4 counting EFI partition) partitions on your boot drive if Lion is installed so you need to reduce that to two (SL and the hidden EFI, Disk Utility creates)
It's easier than it sounds really, make sure all other drives, media is removed so there are no accidents.
1: get a blank external drive, use Disk Utility to Erase Security Option > Zero All Data and format 1 partition, Option: GUID OS X Extended in the Partition Tab.
2: free Carbon Copy Cloner to clone internal SL to external (default settings are fine for first clone)
3: hold option boot the external SL drive, use Disk Utility (on the external drive!) to erase the whole internal drive media
4: use CCC to reverse clone onto the internal drive
5: use free Onyx and run ALL maintainence and cleaning aspects and reboot at the end when finished (cleans up caches, makes your machine run faster)
http://www.titanium.free.fr/
You can learn all how to do that in my huge thread here
https://discussions.apple.com/message/16276201#16276201

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