Got it to export/import OBJ, and yes it tells me it strips everything and makes one single mesh of it.. so I'm assuming I'll be able to work from this single mesh and separate, UV, and texture. Not going to try today as it's Xmas eve and very busy. Thank you for your feedback! Will post back in a few to let you know if that was the issue.

Happy Holidays!

[Edit] Spoke too soon! Wife went out to the store and I found myself at the monitor with the model open, so I just split the head off real quick and tried a spherical mapping... WORKED PERFECTLY right out of the box.


Thank you sooo much dave, that OBJ trick will prove to be most helpful in the future as well!