Not a good day

I began to work when I realized I had made a mistake on the previous day that was irreparable, so I decided to start anew. The work actually got going rather quickly, until I came to a snag in my project. Somehow, as I worked on the control vertexes, I had somehow turned on the soft modification tool. So, any time I wanted to modify this blasted phaser battery, the tool would modify the whole shape rather than the CVs. I restarted Maya, but the soft mod actually stayed ON! I couldn't escape it, until I found a way to turn it off. I've begun work again, but today was almost a complete waste.