Here's something interesting. I posted to comp.soft-sys.matlab yesterday and signed my post by saying that I am an Information Systems Engineering student at Imperial College. And today, I received a reply from someone from the University of Michigan providing some help (which unfortunately, didn't help me with my problem). Anyway, the funny thing was that he used to be an Information Systems Engineering student too and even asked if what I needed was for an assignment by a lecturer he remembered (and no, it wasn't, it was for my project). Strange coincidences everywhere. Who would have known that he would have been roaming through a MATLAB newsgroup?