First I use the freehand tool to draw an elipse (as close as I can get, anyway), closing the shape and letting it fill.

Second, I use the elipse tool to draw another elipse.

The edit handles on these two shapes behave totally differently.

With the elipse created by freehand, I use the shape editor tool and when the pointer goes near an edit handle, the pointer changes, and I can select a point and make control handles appear.

With any shape created by the shape generator, I can click all over creation until the cows come home, and the pointer never changes, the edit handle never gets selected, and the options that I need for editing never appear on the top tool bar.

Is this a bug, or am I missing something?

John