Ok. This is weird, at least for someone new to Maya. I chronicled the problem I was having with Apache modelling tut 5, about my manipulator being backwards when I extrude faces at 11:00 min into the video (https://forum.simplymaya.com/showthre...threadid=20578). None of the suggested help solved the problem, so I went ahead and did the extrusion anyway, which worked fine, despite the screwy manipulator.

Then, at 11:48 on the tut, K instructs us to pull an edge outward. Selecting the edge, with the move manipulator, suddenly the manipulator is in the correct orientation (see pic). This is very frustrating. I know it has to be something as simple as a tool setting, but . . . I believe I've tried every setting, and nothing fixes it.

Any help would be appreciated.