Animations

[MrBigzy]

Well, there's more to rigging than just binding the object. You have to weight each joint to parts of the mesh so the influence is right (so the arm joint doesn't move the foot, for example). It sounds like you did do that though.

If you're autokeying, you should be using the graph editor to fix animations. It's a graph that shows unit/time of the animations of every attribute that you altered, and you can manipulate the graph there to fine-tune and fix animations.

If you want to change the coordinate type for the handles, hold w and click and hold left click (or right click, can't remember). A context menu comes up, and it gives you some options for coordinate systems.