You probably understand even less than I do lol. Determining the frame I am on by using the researcher is what I am trying to do. The NPCs always advance that frame but thats not the problem, if reporter produced valid results the PID of the pokemon I caught should have been found in the search I performed in my previous post.
EDIT: I finally managed to get this to work the way Kaphotics suggested, plugged the current seed from the researcher list into reporter. I still wonder why it failed to produce valid results with the initial seed though, could it be that it was one digit shorter than usual ?