Problems with scaling in illustrator CS3.

Recently while working on a large file in Illustrator I've had a problem with scaling. Normally I scale with handles, and rarely with the input box. Now I can only scale with the input box. I have gone to preferences but that seems fine, (i think?). Is this a new glitch? Is their a way to solve this problem. Thanks.

View > Show Bounding Box.
You probably mistakenly hit the shortcut to turn it off at some point.

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