Constraints and/or parents

YET another hiccup:
I have a pair of doors that open outwards. These worked fine for a time until I joined handles to each door (one handle being a duplicate of the other) - after which I can no longer get the doors to be treated as independant objects. I have tried to clear parents, constraints, tracks and everything else that mightbe related to this but nothing helps and hence my doors both now both rotate anti-clockwise! Have I made a fatal error in joining them to other duplicated objects?
And I was doing so well...... (for me)
Ekimmai
I have a pair of doors that open outwards. These worked fine for a time until I joined handles to each door (one handle being a duplicate of the other) - after which I can no longer get the doors to be treated as independant objects. I have tried to clear parents, constraints, tracks and everything else that mightbe related to this but nothing helps and hence my doors both now both rotate anti-clockwise! Have I made a fatal error in joining them to other duplicated objects?
And I was doing so well...... (for me)

Ekimmai