if you don't need the responses.xls file for anything else, you could avoid it here altogether. for each item add a duration parameter so that it times out after say 5 seconds (or whatever). Have the very next item be a simple instruction screen with no text and a duration of (d1). Give IT the skip value you want them to go to if they took too long on the previous question. Now for all the valid responses, assign skipto values that pass over that follow-up instruction item. Do you see what I'm getting at?