Check out the data section in the user's guide. It should explain the v0003 result. Since MediaLab doesn;t know whatversion of SPSS you will be using, it plays it safe and uses variable names that are 8 characters max. If the MediaLab variable name is longer than than, it renames the variable as var0001, var002, etc. and saves the actual variable name to the variable label. If you double click on any variable while in SPSS's spreadsheet mode, you will see the variable name. Does that account for some of the data that were thought to be missing?