I tried painting to a surface created with the new recon-all (using paint or mri_vol2surf (version 1.22 2005/07/05)), and it seems that the surrfaces are not being read correctly (the data in the w file has the speckled appearance you get when the vertex numbers are wrong).
I posted a message before about my fieldsign code not working on the new surfaces and Bruce Fischl said this about the different surfaces (i.e. orig, smoothwm, inflated, etc.): "check the # of vertices etc... with mris_euler_number (or mris_info). Make sure they all are the same. The file sizes aren't necessarily the same any more as they contain additional info, but the # of vertices etc. should be invariant."
So are paint and mri_vol2surf still supported under the current distribution of MGH FreeSurfer? Are there newer versions out there? Or is everyone using paint-sess these days?
By the way, what was done to the format of the surfaces? What additional info do they contain? Is there documentation or posted code on how to read the new surfaces?