I’ve duplicated a subtool, and now I’m trying to move the entire thing but the transpose tool is deforming the mesh as you can see in the screenshot 
I’m sure there’s just a very simple setting I’m missing here… anyone know what the problem might be?
Something is masked maybe?
Nope, nothing is masked, and it’s all one polygroup as well…
Have you symmetry on?
No, it’s off as well… I duplicated the tool, made it all one polygroup and tried again and it worked fine… any idea why that would be? The original tool still distorts no matter what I do to it. At least I have a workaround, but I’d love to know why this is happening 
The only other thing I can think of is that you have some sort of auto masking on in the Brush>Auto Masking sub-palette. You’re sure the original is one polygroup and you don’t have ‘Mask By Polygroup’ on?
Suddenly tonight it works just fine… but I’ve seen this happen a few times, so at least now I have a nice list of troubleshooting methods for the next time I didn’t turn on any auto masking, marcus, but that’s a good thing to check next time… maybe I hit a hotkey somewhere 
Thanks for the replies!