Attributes panel - retract handles/reverse path direction?

For the life of me I can't get these buttons to go 'live' for any type of object (they are frustratingly unselectable all the time). Do they actually work or is it just my installation?
CS6 (16.0.4)
Mac OS 10.6.8

The reason the buttons are most often grayed (disabled) is because in Illustrator, they are for changing winding direction of subpaths of Compund Paths.
FreeHand's Inspector Palette, does, indeed, have buttons for extending/retracting handles. The half-baked imiltation of that in Illustrator would be the much less capable behavior of the Convert To Smooth and Convert To Corner buttons in the Control Panel (across the top of the main drawing window).
FreeHand also provides a proper Reverse Path command that works on any path, and any number of paths, be they subpaths of Composite Paths or simple paths. Illustrator doesn't, which is why you have to resort to the cumbersome workaround of clicking a path's endPoint with the Pen, thereby making the program think you intend to add segments to that end, and thereby making that end the endPoint (i.e.; changing the path direction if the anchor clicked is not already the endPoint).
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