Move files by mouse drag not always working

I came accross this several times and could not figure out the solution: I try to move files from folders of old user home directory to folders in a new user directory after a fresh reinstall. All the folders in question are on the same volume, in the same partition.
Now comes the weird stuff - I successfuly draged and moved all files from Desktop, Documents, Music and couple other folders, BUT if I try to drag and move all (or any specific) items from my Pictures folder I get only the "Copy" behavior with green plus sign next to dragged folder no matter if I keep the Command (or Option) key pressed, or not. I can not get the "Move files" behavior to work AT ALL (while it worked perfectly fine a second ago on other folders in the SAME location).
I cannot copy, then delete the rest, since there is no space on the drive to copy all pictures. Copying subfolders one-by-one, then deleting is tedious.
Does anyone have any advice or suggestions on how I might be able to troubleshoot this situation?

Hi Thomas, thanks for your help, please see the output below,
The problem folders are "2012-04-09" and others similarly named with dates. If I try to delete them, Finder requests for password, even though current user (katya) has full rights.
katyas-iMac:~ katya$ ls -al ~/Pictures
total 126704
drwx------+ 15 katya wheel 510 Feb 11 22:25 .
drwxr-xr-x+ 14 katya wheel 476 Feb 11 11:10 ..
-rw-r--r--@ 1 katya wheel 15364 Feb 11 22:25 .DS_Store
-rw-r--r-- 1 katya wheel 0 Feb 11 10:56 .localized
drwx------+ 6 katya staff 204 Aug 26 23:46 2012-03-20
drwx------+ 8 katya staff 272 Apr 9 2012 2012-04-09
drwx------+ 4 katya staff 136 Aug 26 23:46 2012-05-26
drwx------+ 5 katya staff 170 Aug 26 23:46 2012-05-27
drwx------+ 5 katya staff 170 Dec 20 2011 Forbidden Fruit
-rw-------@ 1 katya staff 64487450 Feb 18 2012 IMG_0148.MOV
drwxr-xr-x 4 katya wheel 136 Feb 11 19:54 Lightroom
drwxr-xr-x 6 katya wheel 204 Feb 11 22:25 Selected
drwxr-xr-x 2 katya wheel 68 Feb 11 22:25 TMP
-rw-------@ 1 katya staff 156928 Dec 19 2011 y_88496c44.jpg
-rw-------@ 1 katya staff 202880 Dec 19 2011 z_485178bf.jpg

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