Old Maya user needs a bit of help!

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Hi guys, I’m new here! :wink:
The new 2.5 version made me think again and finally start to use Blender. I’m an old Maya user as title states, and I need a little help from you experienced guys.

1) If you’ve ever used Maya you’ll know what I’m talking about, if you haven’t I’ll try to explain. How can I setup preference so when I have a 3D object selected and then click somewhere in the background (and move my mouse while click is pressed) I don’t move the object. Basically I want to whenever I click on background to dis-select anything that has been selected before.

2) When I try to move any object with buttons I can see the viewport manipulators which I’m really used to see and work with, but when I access translate/rotate/scale with hotkeys (which I love) the viewport manipulators aren’t visible! Could I make them visible again?

3) Is there a way to see rectangle marquee when I want to select more objects. (click, hold, drag over) ? Or do I have to select each one by shift + selecting?

I hope everything above is fixable, because only these things are making my transition hard.

Thanks for help,
-eXtreme3D!

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there are a few places i think this is discussed.
just search a little bit.
the first thing i found is here: http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?t=166232&highlight=maya
i don’t know how recent all of that is, not everything may be working because of the constant flux 2.5 is in.

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I moved from maya to blender aswell about half a year ago and it was a bitch to start with. the first thing you want to do is get rid of the bloody trackball camera view to turntable which you can do in the prefences tab. and if you want you can also change the right mouse button to left for object selection but i just got useed to that. there are buttons to change the manipulators just below the viewport, and there are hotkeys but its like a combonation of shift+s+something, i cant remember it but now i just use for example s for scale and then xy or z to only do it along that axis. its a bit annoying to get used to though. but the great thing about 2.5 it the quick search (go on viewport and press spacebar), that realy helps you get used to the hotkeys.