This is not a question. If you can't stretch,squash or bend using the gauge, check File>User Preferences>"File" tab>Auto Run Python Scripts. This helped me.
ref.:http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?298474-Auto-run-disabled
Thanks, ( i believe this is mentioned at the start of most of the tuts. If not my apologies that would have been a bit of an oversight. ) either way bonus points to you :)
I must have missed this in any tutorial I have watched so far. I have been hammering these courses lately, and this is the first time I have heard this. Thanks so much for the tip. I wonder if this would have solved some other problems I had with the source files not working like the lessons.