Hi Doug,
I'm not sure why, but the registration is off. In tkregister2, the "coronal" appears as an axial slice and vice versa, while the sagittal is rotated 90 degrees compared to the target. I did the following:
1. mni152reg --s MAE_06072013
2. tkregister2 --mov /drobo/Documents_corinna_linux/freesurfer_subjects/MAE_06072013/mri/mni152.orig.mgz --targ /usr/share/fsl/5.0/data/standard/MNI152_T1_2mm_brain.nii.gz --reg /drobo/Documents_corinna_linux/freesurfer_subjects/MAE_06072013/mri/mni152.orig.mgz.reg
3. tkregister2 --mov MAE_06072013/hardi/eddy_bet_MAE_06072013_hardi.nii.gz --reg MAE_06072013/register.dat --surf
Up until this point, everything looks good and well registered.
4. mri_matrix_multiply -im MAE_06072013/mri/mni152.orig.mgz.reg -iim MAE_06072013/register.dat -om MAE_06072013/newmnireg.dat