<< Pretty sure that the guy writing the software came here and outright denied there was any issue and told the user to shove off...

Maybe you can revisit that thread and do the "test" to see if they are still throwing away/overwriting/ignoring the original vertex nomals for the NURBS data...>>

Yes, there was an issue quite a while back. But it was fixed. Like I stated, I use MoI and Octane on a regular basis. There are no normal issues anymore.