to the other guys, thanks but i tried those...as far as deleting the history...it would happen as the first thing i do

to vladimirjp, thats exactly what i needed to do, thanks for the help

You know when you create an object (Maya7.0.1 is pops up in the middle of the grid, and you generally immediately go to the Channel Box and input the height, width, depth and amount of subdivisions...

no matter what i do...i cannot get the shadows from point lights (or any lights for that matter) to show up in the perspective view. another problem is that i cannot get the special effect glow to...