Thanks for the reply Phil but my question was rambling and unorganized....probably due to lack of sleep and a coupla beers (digging out from tropical storm Arthur).  I was mostly just pounding keys hoping something would work.  I've found a few good guides to the obj format and am making myself a cheat sheet.  I'd love the developers to release a similar guide to the CR2 file to accompany this.  The only CR2 file format guide I've found is much too technical.