diff --git a/examples/projectTest/main.cpp b/examples/projectTest/main.cpp
index c4b2270e..964ab435 100644
--- a/examples/projectTest/main.cpp
+++ b/examples/projectTest/main.cpp
@@ -84,13 +84,19 @@ createOsdMesh(char *inputFile, char *outputFile, std::string *errorMessage)
     PxOsdUtilSubdivTopology topology;
     std::vector<float> pointPositions;
     
-    if (not topology.ReadFromObjFile(inputFile, &pointPositions, errorMessage))
+    if (not topology.ReadFromObjFile(inputFile, &pointPositions, errorMessage)) {
         return false;
+    }
 
+    topology.refinementLevel = 3;
+
+    std::cout << "Did read topology\n";
+    
     PxOsdUtilUniformEvaluator uniformEvaluator;
 
     // Create uniformEvaluator
     if (not uniformEvaluator.Initialize(topology, errorMessage)) {
+        std::cout << "Initialize failed with " << *errorMessage << "\n";        
         return false;
     }
 
@@ -98,36 +104,40 @@ createOsdMesh(char *inputFile, char *outputFile, std::string *errorMessage)
     uniformEvaluator.SetCoarsePositions(pointPositions, errorMessage);
 
     // Refine with eight threads
-    if (not uniformEvaluator.Refine(8, errorMessage))
+    if (not uniformEvaluator.Refine(8, errorMessage)) {
+        std::cout << "Refine failed with " << *errorMessage << "\n";
         return false;
+    }
     
     std::vector<int> refinedQuads;
     if (not uniformEvaluator.GetRefinedQuads(&refinedQuads, errorMessage)) {
-        std::cout  << "GetRefinedQuads failed with " << *errorMessage << std::endl;        
+        std::cout  << "GetRefinedQuads failed with " << *errorMessage << std::endl;
+        return false;
     }
 
     float *refinedPositions = NULL;
     int numFloats = 0;
     if (not uniformEvaluator.GetRefinedPositions(&refinedPositions, &numFloats, errorMessage)) {
-        std::cout  << "GetRefinedPositions failed with " << *errorMessage << std::endl;        
+        std::cout  << "GetRefinedPositions failed with " << *errorMessage << std::endl;
+        return false;           
     }
     
     std::cout << "Quads = " << refinedQuads.size()/4 << std::endl;        
-    for (int i=0; i<(int)refinedQuads.size(); i+=4)  {
-        std::cout << "(" << refinedQuads[i] <<
-            ", " << refinedQuads[i+1] <<
-            ", " << refinedQuads[i+2] <<
-            ", " << refinedQuads[i+3] <<
-            ")\n";
-    }
+//    for (int i=0; i<(int)refinedQuads.size(); i+=4)  {
+//        std::cout << "(" << refinedQuads[i] <<
+//            ", " << refinedQuads[i+1] <<
+//            ", " << refinedQuads[i+2] <<
+//            ", " << refinedQuads[i+3] <<
+//            ")\n";
+//    }
         
     std::cout << "Hot damn, it worked.\n";
     std::cout << "Positions = " << numFloats/3 << std::endl;
-    for (int i=0; i<numFloats; i+=3)  {
-        std::cout << "(" << refinedPositions[i] <<
-            ", " << refinedPositions[i+1] <<
-            "," << refinedPositions[i+2] << ")\n";
-    }
+//    for (int i=0; i<numFloats; i+=3)  {
+//        std::cout << "(" << refinedPositions[i] <<
+//            ", " << refinedPositions[i+1] <<
+//            "," << refinedPositions[i+2] << ")\n";
+//    }
 
 
 
diff --git a/opensubdiv/osdutil/mesh.cpp b/opensubdiv/osdutil/mesh.cpp
index be8bb104..d17e90c1 100644
--- a/opensubdiv/osdutil/mesh.cpp
+++ b/opensubdiv/osdutil/mesh.cpp
@@ -113,16 +113,16 @@ PxOsdUtilMesh<T>::Initialize(const PxOsdUtilSubdivTopology &topology,
     int fvarWidth = _hmesh->GetTotalFVarWidth();
     if (_t.fvData.size() < _t.nverts.size() * fvarWidth ||
         fvarWidth != (int)_t.fvNames.size()) {
-/*XXX            if (errorMessage)  
-                *errorMessage = TfStringPrintf(
-                    "Incorrectly sized face data: name count = %d, "
-                    "data width = %d, face count = %d, total data size = %d.",
-                    (int) _t.fvNames.size(),
-                    fvarWidth,
-                    (int) _t.nverts.size(),
-                    (int) _t.fvData.size());
-*/                    
-            return false;
+        if (errorMessage)  {                 
+            stringstream ss;
+            ss << "Incorrectly sized face data: name count = " <<
+                _t.fvNames.size() << 
+                ",  data width = " << fvarWidth <<
+                ",  face count = " <<  _t.nverts.size() <<
+                ",  total data size = %d." << _t.fvData.size();
+            *errorMessage = ss.str();
+        }
+        return false;
     }
 
     // ptex index is not necessarily the same as the face index
@@ -243,8 +243,10 @@ PxOsdUtilMesh<T>::Initialize(const PxOsdUtilSubdivTopology &topology,
 //    names.size() * NumRefinedFaces * 4
 template <class T> void
 PxOsdUtilMesh<T>::GetRefinedFVData(
-    int level, const vector<string>& names, vector<float>* outdata)
+    const vector<string>& names, vector<float>* outdata)
 {
+    int level = _t.refinementLevel;
+    
     // First some sanity checking.
     if (!outdata) {
         return;
diff --git a/opensubdiv/osdutil/mesh.h b/opensubdiv/osdutil/mesh.h
index 0abff97b..b2abf0fe 100644
--- a/opensubdiv/osdutil/mesh.h
+++ b/opensubdiv/osdutil/mesh.h
@@ -74,8 +74,7 @@ class PxOsdUtilMesh {
     // by a refiner.
     // XXX: this assumes uniform subdivision, should be moved
     // into uniformRefiner?
-    void GetRefinedFVData(int subdivisionLevel,
-                          const std::vector<std::string>& names,
+    void GetRefinedFVData(const std::vector<std::string>& names,
                           std::vector<float>* fvdata);
     
     OpenSubdiv::OPENSUBDIV_VERSION::HbrMesh<T> *GetHbrMesh() { return _hmesh;}
diff --git a/opensubdiv/osdutil/refiner.cpp b/opensubdiv/osdutil/refiner.cpp
index ac888105..24ac2738 100644
--- a/opensubdiv/osdutil/refiner.cpp
+++ b/opensubdiv/osdutil/refiner.cpp
@@ -29,7 +29,8 @@
 
 #include <osd/vertex.h>
 
-#include <fstream>
+
+#include <sstream>
 
 using namespace OpenSubdiv;
 using namespace std;
@@ -49,7 +50,6 @@ PxOsdUtilRefiner::PxOsdUtilRefiner():
     _numRefinedVerts(0),
     _numUniformQuads(0),
     _numPatches(0),        
-    _level(1),
     _isRefined(false)
 {
 }
@@ -84,35 +84,19 @@ PxOsdUtilRefiner::Initialize(
     const PxOsdUtilSubdivTopology &t = _mesh->GetTopology();
 
     if (adaptive) {
-        std::cout << "\tAdaptive mesh for refiner\n";
         FarMeshFactory<OsdVertex> adaptiveMeshFactory(
-            _mesh->GetHbrMesh(), t.maxLevels, true);
+            _mesh->GetHbrMesh(), t.refinementLevel, true);
         
         _farMesh = adaptiveMeshFactory.Create();
         
     } else {
-        std::cout << "\tUniform mesh for refiner, maxLevels = " << t.maxLevels << "\n";
-
-        HbrMesh<OsdVertex> *hmesh = _mesh->GetHbrMesh();
-        
-        t.Print();
-        
-        std::cout << "\tHbr mesh has faces " << hmesh->GetNumFaces() << "  " << hmesh->GetNumCoarseFaces() << " and vertices " <<
-            hmesh->GetNumVertices() << ", disconnected = " <<
-            hmesh->GetNumDisconnectedVertices() << "\n";
-
-    hmesh->PrintStats(std::cout);
-
-        
-        // create the quad tables to include all levels by specifying
-        // firstLevel as 1
+        // XXX:gelder
+        // Had problems with patchArrayVector in patchTables not working
+        // unless firstLevel is passed as 1 here.  Bug in refiner?
         FarMeshFactory<OsdVertex> uniformMeshFactory(
-            _mesh->GetHbrMesh(), t.maxLevels, false);
+            _mesh->GetHbrMesh(), t.refinementLevel, false, /*firstLevel*/1);
 
         _farMesh = uniformMeshFactory.Create();
-
-        std::cout << "\tUniform farmesh created with " << t.maxLevels << "\n";
-
     }
 
     //
@@ -126,32 +110,33 @@ PxOsdUtilRefiner::Initialize(
     const FarSubdivisionTables<OsdVertex>* ftable =
         _farMesh->GetSubdivisionTables();
     
-    // Find quads array at _level
+    // Find quads array at given level
     const FarPatchTables * ptables = _farMesh->GetPatchTables();
     const FarPatchTables::PatchArrayVector & parrays =
         ptables->GetPatchArrayVector();
     
-    if (_level > (int)parrays.size()) {
-/*XXX        
-         *errorMessage = TfStringPrintf(
-                 "Invalid size of patch array %d %d\n",
-                 _level, (int)parrays.size());;
-*/                 
+    if (t.refinementLevel > (int)parrays.size()) {
+        if (errorMessage) {
+            stringstream ss;
+            ss << "Invalid size of patch array " << t.refinementLevel << " " <<
+                (int)parrays.size();
+            *errorMessage = ss.str();
+        }
         return false;
     }
 
     // parrays doesn't contain base mesh, so it starts with level==1
-    const FarPatchTables::PatchArray & parray = parrays[_level-1];
+    const FarPatchTables::PatchArray & parray = parrays[t.refinementLevel-1];
 
     _patchParamTable = &(ptables->GetPatchParamTable());
 
     // Global index of the first point in this array
-    _firstVertexOffset =  ftable->GetFirstVertexOffset(_level);
+    _firstVertexOffset =  ftable->GetFirstVertexOffset(t.refinementLevel);
     
     // Global index of the first face (patch) in this array
     _firstPatchOffset =  parray.GetPatchIndex();
 
-    _numRefinedVerts = (int) ftable->GetNumVertices(_level);
+    _numRefinedVerts = (int) ftable->GetNumVertices(t.refinementLevel);
 
     std::cout << "refiner has " << _numRefinedVerts << " refined verts\n";
     if (adaptive) {
@@ -191,7 +176,8 @@ PxOsdUtilRefiner::GetRefinedQuads(
     quads->resize(_numUniformQuads * 4);
 
     const FarPatchTables * ptables = _farMesh->GetPatchTables();
-    const unsigned int *quadIndices = ptables->GetFaceVertices(_level);
+    const unsigned int *quadIndices =
+        ptables->GetFaceVertices(_mesh->GetTopology().refinementLevel);
 
     for (int i=0; i<_numUniformQuads*4; ++i) {
         (*quads)[i] = quadIndices[i] - _firstVertexOffset;
@@ -252,11 +238,13 @@ PxOsdUtilRefiner::GetRefinedPtexUvs(vector<float>* subfaceUvs,
     const FarPatchTables * ptables = _farMesh->GetPatchTables();
     const FarPatchTables::PatchArrayVector & parrays =
         ptables->GetPatchArrayVector();
-    if (_level > (int)parrays.size()) {
+    int refinementLevel = _mesh->GetTopology().refinementLevel;
+    
+    if (refinementLevel > (int)parrays.size()) {
         if (errorMessage)
             *errorMessage = "Invalid size of patch array";
     }
-    const FarPatchTables::PatchArray & parray = parrays[_level-1];
+    const FarPatchTables::PatchArray & parray = parrays[refinementLevel-1];
     
     const FarPatchTables::PatchParamTable& paramTable =
         ptables->GetPatchParamTable();
diff --git a/opensubdiv/osdutil/refiner.h b/opensubdiv/osdutil/refiner.h
index 61dde92f..7107619c 100644
--- a/opensubdiv/osdutil/refiner.h
+++ b/opensubdiv/osdutil/refiner.h
@@ -83,10 +83,9 @@ class PxOsdUtilRefiner  {
     // Fetch the face varying attribute values on refined quads
     // Calls through to the lower level mesh class to extract
     // face varying data from hbr.
-    void GetRefinedFVData(int subdivisionLevel,
-                          const std::vector<std::string>& names,
+    void GetRefinedFVData(const std::vector<std::string>& names,
                           std::vector<float>* fvdata) {
-        _mesh->GetRefinedFVData(subdivisionLevel, names, fvdata);
+        _mesh->GetRefinedFVData(names, fvdata);
     }
 
     // Const access to far mesh
@@ -112,7 +111,7 @@ class PxOsdUtilRefiner  {
     // If true, feature adaptive refinement is used and _farMesh
     // is populated with bspline and gregory patches.
     // if false, uniform refinement is used by subdividing the entire
-    // mesh _level times.
+    // mesh N times.
     bool _adaptive;
     
     // The next block of member variables are the OpenSubdiv meshe
@@ -145,8 +144,6 @@ class PxOsdUtilRefiner  {
     int _numUniformQuads;  // zero if adaptive = true
     int _numPatches;       // zero if adaptive = false
     
-    int _level;
-
     bool _isRefined;
 
 };
diff --git a/opensubdiv/osdutil/topology.cpp b/opensubdiv/osdutil/topology.cpp
index 80ec8ed0..ec354c8d 100644
--- a/opensubdiv/osdutil/topology.cpp
+++ b/opensubdiv/osdutil/topology.cpp
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@
 #include <sstream>
 #include <iostream>
 #include <stdio.h>
+#include <stdlib.h>
 #include <string.h>
 
 using namespace std;
@@ -33,7 +34,7 @@ using namespace std;
 PxOsdUtilSubdivTopology::PxOsdUtilSubdivTopology():
     name("noname"),
     numVertices(0),
-    maxLevels(2)  // arbitrary, start with a reasonable subdivision level
+    refinementLevel(2)  // arbitrary, start with a reasonable subdivision level
 {
     std::cout << "Creating subdiv topology object\n";    
 }
@@ -53,7 +54,7 @@ PxOsdUtilSubdivTopology::Initialize(
 {
 
     numVertices = numVerticesParam;
-    maxLevels = levels;
+    refinementLevel = levels;
 
     nverts.resize(numFaces);
     for (int i=0; i<numFaces; ++i) {
@@ -126,7 +127,7 @@ PxOsdUtilSubdivTopology::Print() const
 {
     std::cout << "Mesh " << name << "\n";
     std::cout << "\tnumVertices = " << numVertices << "\n";
-    std::cout << "\tmaxLevels = " << maxLevels << "\n";
+    std::cout << "\trefinementLevel = " << refinementLevel << "\n";
     std::cout << "\tindices ( " << indices.size() << ") : ";
     for (int i=0; i<(int)indices.size(); ++i) {
         std::cout << indices[i] << ", ";
@@ -265,7 +266,7 @@ PxOsdUtilSubdivTopology::ParseFromObjString(
         }
     }
 
-    numVertices = (int)pointPositions->size()/3;
+    numVertices = pointPositions->size()/3;
 
     return true;
 }
diff --git a/opensubdiv/osdutil/topology.h b/opensubdiv/osdutil/topology.h
index f0c5b33b..35947daf 100644
--- a/opensubdiv/osdutil/topology.h
+++ b/opensubdiv/osdutil/topology.h
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ class PxOsdUtilSubdivTopology {
     // XXX Would be great for these members to be private with accessors
     std::string name;
     int numVertices;
-    int maxLevels;
+    int refinementLevel;
     std::vector<int> indices;
     std::vector<int> nverts;
     std::vector<std::string> vvNames;
diff --git a/opensubdiv/osdutil/uniformEvaluator.cpp b/opensubdiv/osdutil/uniformEvaluator.cpp
index 261d0407..82eb844a 100644
--- a/opensubdiv/osdutil/uniformEvaluator.cpp
+++ b/opensubdiv/osdutil/uniformEvaluator.cpp
@@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ PxOsdUtilUniformEvaluator::Initialize(
     }
 
     // No need to create a far mesh if no subdivision is required.
-    if (_refiner->GetTopology().maxLevels == 0) {
+    if (_refiner->GetTopology().refinementLevel == 0) {
         
         // Three elements per unrefined point
         _vertexBuffer = OsdCpuVertexBuffer::Create(
diff --git a/opensubdiv/osdutil/uniformEvaluator.h b/opensubdiv/osdutil/uniformEvaluator.h
index 6803e2cd..aabd62ae 100644
--- a/opensubdiv/osdutil/uniformEvaluator.h
+++ b/opensubdiv/osdutil/uniformEvaluator.h
@@ -111,10 +111,10 @@ class PxOsdUtilUniformEvaluator {
     // Fetch the face varying attribute values on refined quads, call
     // through to the refiner but keep in evaluator API for 
     // one-stop-service for user API
-    void GetRefinedFVData(int subdivisionLevel,
+    void GetRefinedFVData(
                    const std::vector<std::string>& names,
                    std::vector<float>* fvdata) {
-        _refiner->GetRefinedFVData(subdivisionLevel, names, fvdata);
+        _refiner->GetRefinedFVData(names, fvdata);
     }