Save Downloaded files: at different locations

Hi,
I wish to save my downloaded files at different locations, and not any particular default location.
I want a promt to ask me the location each time I download a file.
Think this feature was available in Safari 4; but Safari 5 saves all my files to a location, instead of asking me on each download.
Thanks !!

If I right-click on a file and choose "Download Linked File As" it asks me where to save the file. Does that work for you?
However, If I right-click on a file and choose "Download Linked File" it uses the default location.
If a file is pushed to you, it will use the default location.

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Others have already given alternative pointers to solve your specific problem, but I can understand the desire to roll your own
From your script samples, you're on the right track, but are missing a couple of key concepts. I'll try to clarify.
Your script:
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First up, let's correct that 'choose folder' command. Specifically, the prompt - it should be a string (enclosed in quotes). As it stands, conceptually, you're kind of invoking 'choose folder' again, and the result of that is used as the prompt on the first 'choose folder'. Not going to work so well.
Instead, your choose folder should look more like:
set the destination_folder to choose folder with prompt "Select a folder:"
Note how I've quoted the text and now it's interpreted correctly - the selected folder will now be stored in destination_folder.
Now that you have the destination folder, what you need is the files to move. Fortunately, Folder Actions provide this for you in the way the command is called:
on adding folder items to this_folder after receiving these_items
In this case, these_items is a list of the newly added files., so all you need to do is move these files to the destination_folder:
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Note how I've moved the 'choose folder' line outside of the 'tell application "Finder"' block - there's no need for it to be in there, and this way it will prevent the context switch where the Finder comes active to ask you for the folder.
Incidentally, this is a 'pure' AppleScript implementation, not an Automator action. The Automator action would be radically different in that the files would be passed into your workflow - you'd need to store these in a variable, then prompt for the destination folder and store that in another variable, then use the move Finder items action to move the files, like:
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