Thanks for that bit of information. I was about to ask how to un-upgrade so I had something that worked!

When you go into edge move object mode it really throws a lot of garbage on the screen. Being an absolute newbie I can't say if it was like that in earlier versions.

Sometimes when you are in select mode it won't select objects, or doesn't change the color to indicate what is selected. I'm not sure which is the case. Being new to this I'm working with simple stuff and shouldn't be having such obvious problems. I didn't experience any problems with the trial version.