Move files, not copy files

Just got iMac with Lion. Former MBP with Snow Leopard. I like my downloaded files to go to my desktop for easy finding, but when I try to move them to the appropriate folder, they show up in both places, which means to me that it's just copying. In Snow Leopard and all former iterations of X, dragging a file to the destination moved it and it was gone from the original location. When I search help on the finder menu, the instructions look the same as for Snow Leopard - drag = move. What am I doing wrong?

I have a solid state drive (256G) and a spinning drive (1T). I would assume they represent two different volumes?
I tried option-click&drag, but a copy remains on the desktop.
I called apple and the tech support guy told me this is normal behavior and I have to drag any files I've already copied onto another drive into the trash to get rid of them. Anyway, on my MBP, I could option-click and drag files from my desktop to external drives without copies being left on my desktop, so this behavior seems to be really different from my previous experience with Snow Leopard. Guess I just had it easy before...
I'm thinking I'm going to change my preferences in my browsers, Safari and Firefox, to download onto the 1T drive instead - maybe there won't be an extra step in moving files into folders on that drive.

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