Comment 3 for bug 481805

Reproduced in Inkscape 0.48.1 on Windows 7.

Another workaround: Shift+Click one of the circular handles.

I'm learning how to use Inkscape now and I keep running into bugs like this. It can be frustrating because I don't always know what the correct behavior is meant to be. This is probably half and afternoon's work. I think you should fix it.