Targeting all objects down the group structure

Hi all.
I have a tree of groups of several levels, like here
http://i43.tinypic.com/29ok7sm.jpg
Each group has some 5-10 objects, and I need to target each of them for some appearance change (the way it worked in Illustrator 9), without selecting each of them individually -- in total I have thousands of them. Clicking on "Contents" all the way down doesn't work because not all objects are on the same levels.
Basically, I want object-level targeting only, and I want to disable "smart targeting".
How do I do that?

This is a case-in-point illustration of my complaint that Illustrator doesn't know the difference between something being selected as an object and merely having all its subparts selected.
Despite Illustrator's insistence upon two selection pointers, the so-called Direct Selection tool (which I think should be renamed something sensible, like Subselect tool) doesn't always subselect. That is, as soon as you have all of the points of a path selected, the rest of the program acts as if the selection's parent (the path) is selected. So, for example, you then can't perform alignments on the supposedly direct-selected points.
That problem cascades to the rest of the selection interface; supposedly "direct select" all of the objects in a Group, and other features in the program act like you have selected the Group.
Even in math classes that involve set theory, it is stressed that a set is not the same thing as all of its members.
Nor is Illustrator consistent even in this. Select a Group, apply a fill, and the fill is applied to each of the individual members. But apply an effect, like opacity, and the effect is applied at the Group level. This is by design. That doesn't make it intuitive.
JET

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