Oy!

I have a sub-d character. He stsrted out as a poly cube, then i followed the tutorial on how to create a simple man.

My problem now is the when i go into standard mode, i cannot get the display levels to go up and down.
Secondly, when i pick a single vertex in standard mode, it only moves a blue mesh around the model (fig 1) rather than the model itself???????????

Some of the timess a mesh moves, some of the times the model moves...

I need some help....


PS - what is 'mlRoto1'