Howdy Ziad and/or Rick:

I am at a loss to explain this, help is kindly appreciated:

foreach x (001)
foreach H (lh)
SurfSmooth -spec bob"$x"_"$H"_mesh160_std.spec -surf_A stdSphere.reg -add_index -met LB_FEM -input /bob/bob.participants/"$x"/imaging.data/results/"$H".160.bob.deconvolution+reg."$LC"."$x".1D -Niter 100 -fwhm 8 -add_index -output /bob/bob.participants/"$x"/imaging.data/results/"$H".160.sm8.bob.deconvolution+reg."$LC"."$x".1D
end
end

screen output =

vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvSurface #0/1(Local Domain Parent), loading ...
Error SurfSmooth: Failed to read input surface.

Where the input surface contains:

#define various States
StateDef = stdSmoothwm
StateDef = stdPial
StateDef = stdInflated
StateDef = stdSphere
StateDef = stdWhite
StateDef = stdSphere.reg

NewSurface
SurfaceFormat = ASCII
SurfaceType = FreeSurfer
FreeSurferSurface = bob001_lh_mesh160_stdSmoothwm.asc
LocalDomainParent = SAME
SurfaceState = stdSmoothwm
EmbedDimension = 3
Anatomical = Y

.............. etc..

NewSurface
SurfaceFormat = ASCII
SurfaceType = FreeSurfer
FreeSurferSurface = bob001_lh_mesh160_stdSphere.reg.asc
LocalDomainParent = bob001_lh_mesh160_stdSmoothwm.asc
SurfaceState = stdSphere.reg
EmbedDimension = 3

Thanks again,
Jeremy Skipper