There's another problem. I wrote this after I closed down Maya, and I just brought it back up to reopen my file, and evidently the part that was in question is now gone from the viewports. Here's the scene itself, along with what's going on in the script editor. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v416/temetry/maya1.jpg…
I'm sure this is just one of Maya's quirks that I haven't learned how to deal with yet, but whenever I try to Smooth a polygon mesh, it selects all the faces of the model, but doesn't smooth anything. At first this only happened when I had the "exponential" smooth setting on, but now the same things going with linear…