Using an array within an array, and exporting to CSV

Question

I am gathering data about an AD user, including group membership and I want to output that to a CSV. Easy enough right? Not so much :) I am successfully generating 2 arrays, one has user data and the 2nd has group membership, but it's not exporting properly
to CSV. I've tried the -notypeinformation but it's still showing up.
My code is below, followed by contents of CSV file in text format.
cls
#declare array to use
$user_main = @()
$arrGroups = @()
$user = Get-ADUser -Filter {samaccountname -eq "MyUserName"} -Properties *
$temp_user.Name = $user.Name
$temp_user.SAMname = $user.SamAccountName
$temp_user.lastpwchange = $user.PasswordLastSet
$temp_user.lastlogon = $user.LastLogonDate
#get group membership
$groups = $user.memberof
foreach ($group in $groups)
$temp1 = $group.Split(",")
$group_name = $temp1[0].Substring(3, $temp1[0].Length -3)
#$arrGroups += New-Object -TypeName psobject -Property $temp
$arrGroups += $group_name
$user_main += New-Object -TypeName psobject -Property $temp_user
#$user_main | select * | Format-Table
#$arrGroups
$new = $user_main + $arrGroups
Export-Csv -InputObject $new -Path c:\test\test.txt -NoTypeInformation -Encoding "utf8"
Write-Host ""
Write-Host "Done"
The resulting text file contains:
"Count","Length","LongLength","Rank","SyncRoot","IsReadOnly","IsFixedSize","IsSynchronized"
"45","45","45","1","System.Object[]","False","True","False"
So I have 2 issues. One is the "export-csv -notype" isn't working quite right, not sure why. And secondly, you can see the System.Object[] entry, which I believe is my array of groups. I need that to display the names of the groups the user belongs
to.
Any help is greatly appreciated!

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