Because a lot of us don't know what that accomplishes and if the default works, messing with it seems dumb? ;-) I'll have to give it a try on stuff I've downloaded. For my freebies, I'd keep the normals in because people might be using the .obj files in programs other than Poser, and I have no clue which programs need the normals, and which ones do not. Do people want to experiment on this and see what effect this has on different programs, like Vue, Bryce, etc.?