Aaaah...so after importing my model and doing the rigging and texturing, I should at that point select the settings in the parameter and render pallets and THEN save it(?) These settings will then be used when someone else loads the model and it will look the way it was intended...unless the user then changes something(?) This would make modelling much easier since it eliminates the need to make support loops on every corner, AND it reinforces what I'm seeing on other models I've examined.

I'm going to make another little tut so that others don't have to nash their teeth over something that turns out to be simple.