1) I believe that the first 9 coefficients [0]-[8] are the estimated hemodynamic response at the *average* value of the modulation variable (average hits in your case), while the second set [9]-[17] are the modulation effects.
2) If you want to compare the two conditions in terms of the whole hemodynamic response curve, do this:
'SYM: hits[[0..8]] -guess[[0..8]]'
Check out the details here: [
afni.nimh.nih.gov]
3) I'm not so sure how the option -iresp works in this case, but you can simply extract those 9 coefficient using 3dbucket.
Gang