Blender Customization

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picture #2 isn’t a quirk, it’s a feature that you accidentally toggled on.
Next to the vertex, line, face selection buttons there’s a button with a wireframe cube on it, untoggle it and that “quirk” goes away, it’s a very useful feature at times.

As for the rest of the project, I’m not familiar enough with either 3DS MAX or RHINO to do much so I’ll just leave that piece of advice here and wish you luck on finding a suitable candidate.

Picture #2 make sure your clipping does not start too soon see http://www.blender.org/manual/editors/3dview/display.html#view-panel