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I've been playing with Lion and Mission Control. I'm not sure how I did it, but I seem to have reordered my desktops.
When I open Mission Control, the labels of the desktops at the top of the screen are (from left to right):
Dashboard, Desktop 1, Desktop 2, Desktop 4, Desktop 5, Desktop 3 (in the wrong place!), Desktop 6, Desktop 7, Desktop 8, Desktop 9
How did I relocate 3? And how do I put it back in the right place?
What you can do is this:
Delete the desktops and then recreate the by hovering over them and pressing the red thing in the corner, then looking at the right to make a new desktop.
This is no longer necessary as of Mac OS Lion 10.7.2, see this answer for an easier solution.
By default, Spaces are reorganized by last used. You can change this in System Preferences -> Mission Control.
Starting with Mac OS Lion 10.7.2, you can drag to re-order your desktops, even the ones that are in full-screen mode.
You can't drag or relocate them even after you disable automatic ortanization in System Preferences -> Mission Control.
They seem to be fixed, which is weird. Let's hope that in a future update, Apple fixes this issue.
You can change the windows displayed on the single desktops by pressing the alt key and then clicking on a desktop. So if for example you want preview (which was on desktop 3) to move to desktop 2 you would do:
Alt + Click on Desktop 3 & Drag the Window of Preview and put in on desktop 2.
Else you can also go to desktop 2 and right click on the Preview icon in the Dock and then click on: Assign to Desktop 2.
