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Sorry everyone.  I'm a noob and i did search on this.  I also scanned a couple tutorials as well as the manual but it isn't getting through to me.

I create a scene with a sphere and a cylinder. 

then export it as .obj

then I open that .obj in a new scene it shows me one mesh.  Not a group of two meshes. 

it doesn't matter if i leave them as two separate objects or group them together.  when they come back in there is only one mesh listed in the scene.

I'm missing something simple but can't figure it out.

Also when I bring in a very complex .obj model it does the same thing.