You can insert previous fill in the blank and scale responses into question wording and response options by placing the variable name in <> brackets. In your case, you might have a multiple response question like this:
Code:
What groups are important to you?
1. <religion>
2. <race>
3. <politics>
I know you can draw these from previous scale response and fill in the blank items doing it this way. Not sure if you can draw from previous multiple response items. If not, you could do that using the advanced features via the responses.xls file (see guide for more on that).
Note that this requires v2006 or later, I believe.
Hope that helps!
Blair