ok here's the issue
note this only started recently
you know when you are modeling something, a street for instance, and you want to move the camera (in perspective mode) to another side. You click the middle mouse button and move it over. Then you realize you want to look at it for a different angle, so you hold alt and click the middle mouse
This is where the issue is
instead of panning around the spot i'm currently looking at, is spins the camera around some random point
Better explained: You are looking at a biped. you move the camera (in perspective mode) to the left so the biped is on the right side of the screen. You then hold alt and the middle mouse button to rotate, but instead of your view turning around so you can see the biped from a different angle, the camera seems to be stuck on a circular track around the biped, so everything rotates but the biped stays in the right side of the screen.
If anyone has seen this/knows anything about it, please tell me! It is impossible to model like this.
Thanks so much in advance