Saving pdf from webpages

I read a lot of PDF documents on several research web sites. On these particular websites, the PDFs load in the page only. I can right-click and select "Open in Preview" which is great, because then I can quickly skim the article and see if I want to save it.(faster in preview app, than trying to read it in safari).
The catch is when I go to save the file to a folder on my local disk.
I choose save as, and the little save window pops up and has the default save location set to private/tmp. I realize that when I click open in preview, it downloads it to the private/tmp dir, and opens it. Then when I save, it defaults to the location the file was at. However, the tmp directory will never ever be useful for saving 20-30 documents which I can quickly whip up to be saved.
Having to re-name the document title(after saving it to tmp, it assigns numbers like "2412476251" to the name of the file), then choose from the list(at the very bottom) for recent locations is very annoying! it adds a lot of time and frustration to gathering research materials.
I thought I remembered OSX(before I had to reinstall everything today) keeping the last location saved to (after saving to it). But I cannot figure out how to change any of the default locations. I really feel that apple should have included a feature to allow the user to change the default save/open location on the fly.
Does anyone have insight on this? Or a solution? I just want something, such that I can click on the PDF (opened in safari) and have it save to a folder on my HD.
Stuff which won't work:
-Choosing Save/ Save As from safari. This will only let me save as a web archive of the surrounding page.
-Choosing Print, saving as a PDF. This is almost as painful, regarding time and effort. Doing this task 30+ times a day, *****.
-A shareware app which literally costs half the price of OSX Tiger. (Default Folder X or whatever)
about my system: I just today, reinstalled my OS and did updates (after having a 10.4.8 install issue which hosed my OS.)I have lots of free space, and the only app I have installed is Mathematica5.
2.0 ghz macbook pro Mac OS X (10.4.8) Fresh Install
2.0 ghz mbp Mac OS X (10.4.8)
2.0 ghz mbp Mac OS X (10.4.8)

If you option click the link to the PDF in Safari it will save the file to your default download location. If you've already opened something in Safari you can go to menu item Window, select Activity, and then option click the item that contains the file name, for instance:
http://www.corsaire.com/white-papers/040622-securing-mac-os-x.pdf
A double click will download the file "040622-securing-mac-os-x.pdf" to your default download folder. If you are doing this a lot you can create a Downloads folder, then in Safari's Preferences, General select your Downloads folder as the default location.
But I too am wondering what is wrong with your setup of Safari, since when I open a PDF file in Safari and select Save as it gives the name of the file on the web site as the default name, and the last place I saved something to as the default location.
Francine
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