I experimented more last night and noticed that hexagon separates vertices (v's) into groups, where UV mapper separates facets (f's) into groups.

With UV mapper resaved obj I was able to copy the facet section out of a grouped file, and paste it into an ungrouped file...  without messing with the vertices section.

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