Problems with 3ds max

I have another issue with 3ds max. When I try to scale in just one or two dimensions, it scales in all of them. So if I grab the X and Y gizmo, it scales along Z as well!

Edit: Did I do something wrong? If not, can I get some help?

there's 3 different scale tools, hit R more than once, and it'll cycle trough them

Well... uh. They're sort of a good thing? You kind of want them there. What you're talking about wanting will hurt your mesh in the long run.

What are you trying to do with that? Is it going in to Halo?

you don't want to remove those edges, even if you do, they'll still be there, they just won't be displayed.

as long as the surface is flat, it's fine (Assuming you want them flat)

if you REALLY want to remove them, just hit backspace (hold control + backspace to also remove the vertices associated with the edges)

er, I don't want to remove them, I want to make them not visible, as they are really annoying on the wireframe and edged faces.

Not visible as in, they don't show up on wireframe, but show up as faces in realistic mode.

This is just for fun/personal learning, its not going in anything. I don't know how to do that anyhow.

learn to love the edges instead.

see, it's not that hard.

Instead of showing screencaps of the viewport show wireframes, they will benefit more. You'd usually show renders without wireframe on with the final model, and to make sure there are no smoothing errors.

Ok, but those last two were renders. I thought the viewport pics would be more useful, because you can see the wireframe on them, and its kind of hard for me to get a good render which showcases all of the markers features.

edit: for the record, they've all been renders, except the first one, because I wanted the problem easily visible.

1, i can't see a goddamn thing
2, for FUCK sake, hit the P-key, and stay dont post screenshots from an orthographic camera.