re-rooted hand control

Right, re-created the left hand handle, simple nurbs circle resized to roughly match the geometry and moved the pivot point to the wrist joint. Then selected the circle and the wrist IK handle in the hypergraph hierachy window and added a point constrain (Constrain menu - point). Now the circle controls the Ik handle.

Next thing is to add an orient constraint to the circle and the wrist joint (constrain, orient). Now the hand can rotate from the wrist using the nurbs circle to control it.

Previously the nurbs circle was jumping when i tried to apply the orient constrain. Man in the tutorial says this is bad. Indeed it was, but the extra wrist joint has seemed to have straightened all that out.