Can't select handles on motion path

Everytime I try to click on and move a handle from a keyframe on a motion path... it suddenly deselects. Sometimes I get the handle, most times I don't. Kinda funny, really. I would select the path, click on a keyframe to make the handles appear, then try to click on one of the handles, and the whole thing deselects. Over and over I go. Am I doing something wrong?

Thanks, I can be a little at ease now that I know I'm not missing something. I did realize tonight that I do need to be very precise, but that just slows me down a lot. And often I still can't quite grab that handle. Perhaps they could add a Precision setting in Preferences which tells the cursor how close it needs to be to the handle to select it.

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