MySQL "extended" vs "show status"

When I do mysqladmin extended from the command line, my Com_* counters differ completely from doing a开发者_开发问答 show status when consoled into MySQL. Why is this?

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http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/show-status.html

All was explained there. The session was defaulted to local when consoled, while mysqladmin defaulted to global.