Octave 3.2.4 Plot command issues

[Haimbodi, Moses]

Hi:

I am having some odd, weird and utterly confusing issues with Octave 3.2.4. 

I have used Octave for over 6 years now in my Numerical Methods class and love 
it. My students enjoy it as well. But lately, I have had trouble generating 
plots using a simple plot(x,y) command. Instead it prefer that I use line(x,y) 
command. The trouble is that if I use line(x,y), it won't let me conrol any of 
the trace properties such as "linewidth", "color" etc. And what is more more 
intriguing is that these errors happen on both my laptop and e-machine - both 
of which run Windows7. My Office PC which runs WindowsXP has no such issues. Is 
this a platform related problem? Please Advise.

Thanks.

MWH