Thanks and enjoy your coffee.   I am comfortable editing cr2s and doing search/reaplces so i think I'll figure it out with your instructions.

And thanks again for the info about the known bugs...I'm still new to Carrara and have wondered if if I was creating/inflicting these problems upon myself..   Especially re the 'lost group names every third time or so' - that was real frustrating ;-/    (until now;-)