I've managed to get used to most of the new stuff in Lion, but the screwing with the File save stuff is just mind-bendingly awful, and has broken things as simp

I've managed to get used to most of the new stuff in Lion, but the screwing with the File save stuff is just mind-bendingly awful, and has broken things as simple as trying to re-save a text-file or image from a read-only folder to a read/write folder. Example: Choose a locked file and try saving a copy anywhere. Can you do it? I've resorted to using the Finder to copy things into accessible places to work on them.