Thank you for the suggestions. I downloaded the plug-in from TIG and got it to work rather well with some sample OBJ files. I'm going to study his code to see if I can tweak some things for my own OBJ import needs.
I also appreciate the reference to meshlab. I'll download and install that so I have another program in which I can test the OBJ files I am creating.
The Sunburned Surveyor