Hi, Shana-
Thanks for answering those questions; I'm still a bit confused about what the problem is. Any NIFTI or BRIK/HEAD files should overlay fine in the AFNI GUI; I don't see the issue of what matters whether a dset is called "abuc" or not.
Are the dsets supposed to be in some standard space, but won't overlay properly because they have the wrong view/sform code? Are your PALM results supposed to be standard or native/subject space?
You mention this:
" Very true. Okay, I'd prefer to use AFNI so I guess I'll just have to figure out how to display results on the surface in AFNI-land. "
That can be done in several ways, for example using suma+afni GUIs together to project data onto an existing mesh.
Perhaps, would you mind uploading the dsets (I will PM you instructions to do that), and I can take a look in vivo? I'm sorry, I just don't understand what the problem is...
--pt