LR4 Drag n Drop Only Creates Copies

Hello,
Setup: Lightroom 4.4 on OSX (Snow Leopard), 24" iMac.
Situation: Imported a large number of RAW files from camera (Canon 5D Mk III) into LR4. Several of the photos are a series of HDR shots that I want to MOVE to their own subfolder. Create the subfolder (HDR) under the date-labelled folder that the files were originally imported into. Select all files in the HDR series, and from the filmstrip, center the mouse pointer over one of the thumbnail images, and then CLICK and DRAG the files over the HDR subfolder.
Well, this where the process fails....while hovering the files over the subfolder, I get the classic "COPY" plus sign, and no key or sequence of keys will change if from COPY to MOVE. If I drop the files as is, they copy over into the subfolder. Ok, this wouldn't be such a bad thing; I can do like any other copy operation, and go back to the original folder and delete the files, right?! WRONG!!! Evidently the copied files are aliased to their originals, and if I delete from either location, they ALL go away.
Sadly, I had this exact problem two years ago with LR3, and had found a solution to it that fixed things so a move was an actual move. Unfortunately whatever I did to fix it went bye-bye with the upgrade to LR4, and yes, I've searched and googled myself silly trying to find the answer again, to no avail. Hence, this posting...
If anyone has the answer, or suggestions, I would truly appreciate a poke in the right direction, before I resort to pulling more hair out!!
ciao
Bryan

Actually I'm pretty sure I'm not mistaken. When I drag and drop 20 files from the original folder that had 95 pictures in it, and drop it on the sub folder (which starts with 0 files) I get those 20 files in the subfolder, and still have my original 95 files in the original folder. if were actually moving them, the 20 files in the original folder would have gone away, and not remained.
I never pay much attention to the numbers shown in Lightroom. Depending on whether you have turned on (or is turned on by default) the "Show Photos in Subfolders" option, the folders in the Lightroom Folder panel do not behave exactly the same as folders in your operating system; if you click on a parent folder, you will see all photos in the parent folder and in the subfolders. The numbers shown also are affected by the "Show Photos in Subfolders" option.
Go look in your operating system and see if the photos are in both locations (indicating a copy) or if they are only in the sub-folder (indicating a move).
I am 100% sure you will find that the in your operating system, photos are only in the sub-folder.
Also, as stated above, this is not even a true "copy" operation, because deleting a file in either location results in its "twin" being deleted from the other folder as well.....
I think you have mis-understood what Lightroom is doing.

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