> btw: when I was doing the 2d scaling, if I accidently went
> and scaled in both x and y instead of just x I would loose
> my original x. Is there something that would keep this
> from happening?

The 1-directional "squishing" will turn off if you get more than 4 times that tolerance screen distance away from either the x or y "squish lines".

That's so that there is a way you can kind of "shake off" the squishing entirely if it is getting in the way of doing a more subtle regular scaling where you want to make a very small adjustment.

I think it is something that won't be such a factor when you know in advance that you want to squish something and track along those squish lines. (rather than just experimenting with the tool I mean).

Please let me know if it continues to be a problem when you are using it for more sort of normal tasks.

- Michael