I appreciate that you have taken the time to reply to my query; and thank you for your suggestions. However, at present I am pretty stubborn about making a go of it in SPSS 12 and would appreciate replies in that vein. If I do not recieve suggestions for dealing with this problem via SPSS, I am sure I will refer to the statistical packages you had suggested. Thanks again.
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