Illustrator v18.1.1 can't scale objects with pointer

as of today, jan 19, 2014, using the object selection tool I cannot scale objects either individually or as a group! aaargh! it's a fairly necessary feature, anyone else having this issue?

It was gone, everything was working fine last week, but today it seems to be broken again, the only change seems to be an update to the Creative Cloud libraries, surely that wouldn't screw it all up!

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