you also have to click on the element after you have selected it -
depending on whether you have that element's tool, or the selction tool (arrow), active in your tool palette you get two different pet palettes.
clicking the last box in the pet palette switches you between the element's own transformation functions and the general transformation functions of the selection tool.
~/archiben
b e n f r o s t
b f [a t ] p l a n b a r c h i t e c t u r e [d o t] n z
archicad | sketchup! | coffeecup