nomuse,
 
It's very possible I'm the one confused. Or just a victim of those modeling/selections steps you mention, but everytime I import/export to/from Carrara I loose any grouping, UVMapper or Poser. However I almost always (really always but you never know) retain the shading domains/material groups. So using the materials makes it a piece of cake to select and convert them to groups either in UVMapper Pro or in Poser itself...

BTW have you documented which Selection/Modeling steps cause the Grouping/Naming to be deleted? Has this infromation been passed on to DAZ? I'd appriciate any info on this as I just assumed the groups were routinely deleted.

mike