How to quit an app?

Okay, this might be a stupid question, but how do I leave and quit an app at the same time in iOS 4? Previosly, I would just hit the Home Button, but now it seems it leaves all apps open at the multitasking bar and the only way I can fully quit an app is to minus it out of the multitasking bar. So, there is no way to leave and quit an app at the same time?

I too fail to see the point of the multi-task bar. What good to me is a list of every app I'ver ever run on my phone? It doesn't take long before that list has pretty much every icon on my phone in it.
My desktop has my icons arranged by pages and now folders, and in an order that only changes when I rearrange them. That's useful. I can easily find the apps I want to open using my desktop.
The multi-task bar is not useful. It shows a few icons at a time in one ginormous, dynamic list. There is no value in scrolling through it to hunt for the app I want to run. You might point out that if it's an app I ran recently. it'll be at the front of the list and thus easy to find. But my retort will be that you don't know much about user-interface design.
Because my workflow will often have me opening apps that weren't recently open, and because those are much more quickly found via my desktop icons, my standard workflow to open an app will be to press home and find it on my desktop. It would be slower for me to first check my multi-task list, because every time my app isn't listed at the front, I've just wasted my time on that step.
As a user, I will adapt to a single, efficient workflow. I'm not going to have two workflows and track in my head which app I recently opened vs. which I haven't in order to decide which method to use to re-open that app. That idea is ridiculous.
Apple designs a lot of things well, but they dropped the ball on this one. This was a bad user-interface decision. It adds no value at all, and has the detrimental effect that, as a power user, I'm paranoid that the apps in this list are still running, using RAM, CPU, and/or battery power. So now I waste my time going to this list frequently to manually "close" these apps.

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