welding vertex?
 

Has any one ever heard of welding vertex to keep the textures on a model in Maya?

Not sure what you mean, persay. But you can Merge Vertices.

On a few game sites I asked a question on how to export some textures on my models into the game and some one responded that I need to weld the vertex to get the textures to stay..?

got it taken care of,, its a 3dMax term.

Yes, merge vertices is the Maya equivalent of the Max Weld Vertices command.

Right on,, thanx:)

Weld vertices is also in Lightwave.

Its just Move/Snap to vertice. (w then v)