[carme]

Ok so let's see if anyone can help me with this?

In polygon mode the edges are all straight along the outside (See photo1)

But going into smooth mode, the one vertex makes the edge curl inward while the rest is still straight.

What happened? Why isn't it all straight? How to I correct this so that all the edges are straight in smooth mode?

I don't want to add anymore edge loops! Otherwise there will be creases in the mesh. Also don't want to keep it in polygons since I worked out the entire mesh with knowledge that it would be smoothed at some point. And yes edeges/vertex all seem to be well lined up in the polygon mode.