Hello, 
I am having trouble with the pre-processing step. When I enter the recon-all <subject-id> command I get an error: 

[Lisa-Koskis-iMac:/Applications/freesurfer/subjects] root# recon-all -s ms_018 
ERROR: nothing to do

When I enter 'recon-all -s ms_018 -qcache' I get a long list of output but I don't think it worked correctly: 

[Lisa-Koskis-iMac:/Applications/freesurfer/subjects] root# recon-all -s ms_018 -qcache
Subject Stamp: freesurfer-Darwin-leopard-i686-stable-pub-v5.1.0
Current Stamp: freesurfer-Darwin-leopard-i686-stable-pub-v5.1.0
INFO: SUBJECTS_DIR is /Applications/freesurfer/subjects
Actual FREESURFER_HOME /Applications/freesurfer
-rw-rw-r--  1 root  wheel  87913 Nov  8 10:52 /Applications/freesurfer/subjects/ms_018/scripts/recon-all.log
Darwin Lisa-Koskis-iMac.local 10.8.0 Darwin Kernel Version 10.8.0: Tue Jun  7 16:33:36 PDT 2011; root:xnu-1504.15.3~1/RELEASE_I386 i386
INFO: current FREESURFER_HOME does not match that of previous processing.
    Current: /Applications/freesurfer/
    Previous: /Applications/freesurfer
/Applications/freesurfer/subjects/ms_018/surf
#--------------------------------------------
#@# Qdec Cache lh thickness fsaverage Thu Nov  8 11:46:43 EST 2012
INFO: File lh.thickness does not exist!
Skipping creation of smoothed data for lh.thickness
#--------------------------------------------
#@# Qdec Cache lh area fsaverage Thu Nov  8 11:46:43 EST 2012
INFO: File lh.area does not exist!
Skipping creation of smoothed data for lh.area
#--------------------------------------------
#@# Qdec Cache lh area.pial fsaverage Thu Nov  8 11:46:43 EST 2012
INFO: File lh.area.pial does not exist!
Skipping creation of smoothed data for lh.area.pial
#--------------------------------------------
....etc 
recon-all -s ms_018 finished without error at Thu Nov  8 11:46:43 EST 2012
done

My goal is to eventually be able to bring up my T1 images with the qdec application and segment the motor cortex. 
When I use the tkmedit command it works correctly (I have converted my files to .mgz already). 

Do you know if it is a pre-processing error that is preventing me from getting the qdec application to work with my own brain images? I cannot open files in qdec currently. 

Many thanks, 
Julia