Im going through the blender dummies book and on the section where you link these items im using 2.49b the normal contral is alt d and from what the book says there soppose to be another option asking if you want to link these. When I do this (alt D) it just duplicates what I selelct i want where I can grab something have it all linked and expand it with out moving to many edges and vert around.
Can you make it clearer whet you mean? Images etc etc
Richard