Alright well one way I've found to fix the problem is deleting your Maya's folder in MyDocuments. It does delete all your preferences and resets Maya to it's default setting, thus fixing the problem,...

I wish it'd be that easy, but I already tried that without success. But thanks!

So I've been trying to fix this problem for the last two hours without success.

My rotate tool has some weird shape for the rotate axis instead of the usual circles for the rotation axis. ***see...