I'd rather fix the problem using Inquisit's data output than using SPSS's syntax. I have no experience with programming, but at least I have been using Inquisit for a few weeks now.
I apologize for my denseness, but I can't figure out a way to do this by changing Inquisit's data output. I believe you that it's possible, I just don't know how to do it. Looking at the documentation (data and columns help sections in Inquisit) you pointed me to and trying a few different methods hasn't worked. In your most recent post, I tried entering sounds.(mysound).stimulusitem, but it gave me an error message and didn't output anything.
Edit: I see you edited that post and replaced stimulusitem with selectedindex. I now get a column of 1's, but I imagine there must be a way to change that?
Ah, I figured it out! sound.mysound.selectedvalue did the trick. Thanks for getting me in the right direction, I can rest easy now.
Yep, my bad. I picked the wrong property.