In OWA is there a way to move messages to a public folder? I am able to do
this using Outlook, but with OWA the public folders do not show up in the
move/copy list.

Unfortunately, you can not do that :(
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;260569
you have to use a third party application
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