Ciao Ziad,
believe it not, it was not a matter of style or prettiness, although those are indeed our guiding values when conducting analyses out here.
I was worried that those gigantic movements would make 3dAllineate somewhat unhappy, for example.
I'll try 3dDespike. thanks!
cheers
cristina
ps. thanks for the wine suggestion. Colostrum doesn't seem to help much.