[nige777]

Just in case someone else has a mental blockage over this (like me ) and just to close the thread,

I solved this by creating a dictionary that mapped the node id to the geode name, then its a simple matter of indexing to retrieve the GEODE name -

#Fill components list with model child nodes and then sort it
components = model.getNodeNames()
components.sort

#Traverse through scene graph children one by one and create dictionary map
for a in range(len(components)):
	if components[a] == "__VIZARD_NODE__": #finish loop at root node
		break
		
	elif components[a][-5:] == "GEODE":
		k = model.getChild(components[a])
		dict[k] = [components[a]]    #Create dictionary
		continue

The second condition statement checks the node name refers to geometry before creating a dictionary entry