does anyone know how to reset the figure circle to encompass the figure that you are working on. Some how my figure circle is way off and every time I try to twist or rotate the figure body it flys around the display area. It is hard to get a handle on what you want your character to do. I hope someone can point me in the right direction.

You'll need to open to joint editor and reset the figure's center to fix this. What I personally find works best is to select the body part the I want as the center, open the joint editor, write down what that body part's center is, then select body and set the center value there to what I wrote down. I hope that made sense.