Hasta La Motion!

This is going to be a hard one to describe. When I want to select a face or faces of a polygon in face mode, all I get is a red outline when is wireframe, and nothing when it’s shaded. I know things are getting selected because I can manipulate them even though I can’t see what I selected. What I want to see is that nice blue outline and face dot when I’m in face mode and the orangish ability to highlight. But right now I have none of that.
I’m using 2010 by the way.

Thanks to anyone who can help me out of this strange mess 🙂