How do these things happen? If i open my /Applications folder now, and select Font Book, and then hit command-delete (i.e., intentionally try to trash [or even move] that app), i am greeted with a dialog asking for my password "to allow Finder to make changes".
It's not easy.
I have a client who has repeatedly accidentally deleted applications from his Applications folder. I don't know how he does it, but he's done it almost a dozen times.
I'd pay good money to understand what he's doing that makes it happen. It's not an issue like disk directory corruption--I've checked. Somehow, he'll just be using his computer and wham--some program he's using will end up in the trash.
10.6 made the computer prompt for a password when deleting something out of /Applications like you describe, so I wonder if there is some common thing people were doing or some common mistake people were making that was causing folks to accidentally delete applications. I sure would like to know how it happens.
