XSQL Multi-Valued Arrays

I am new to XSQL and writing a registration system that has multiple stages and pages. As such i am wanting to hold various amounts of form data within the session object. The nice way to do this would be to use the multi-valued arrays just provided in the latest documentation.
I have done this in the following way:
<xsql:set-session-param name="course" value="{@COURSE} {@COURSE_INSTANCE} {@COURSE_NOTIFICATION} {@EMAILREFNUMBER} {@EMAILREFER} {@EMAILREFERCONFIRM}" treat-list-as-array="yes"/>
data returned is:
<course>20,45,3</course>
The problems i have is that there are no names for each fields that i can use to reference the values and also as it does not store null values i cannot be sure which value corresponds to which field.
Thanks for your help,
Graham

<xsql:set-session-param name="course[]" value="{@COURSE @COURSE_INSTANCE @COURSE_NOTIFICATION @EMAILREFNUMBE @EMAILREFER @EMAILREFERCONFIRM"/>
The values of the different fields may be retrieved by indexing the course[] array.
course[0] is COURSE
course[1] is COURSE_INSTANCE
course[2] is COURSE_NOTIFICATION

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$obj | Add-Member -Type NoteProperty -Name "name|String" -Value ""
$obj | Add-Member -Type NoteProperty -Name "member|Reference[]" -Value ""
$obj
On source attribute I have members defined in one attribute, divided by ",".
Import script:
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$Obj.Add("member", $members)
$Obj
When Full import is triggered, I get following error for roles with multiple users:
FIM Sync = staging-error
Event log =
The server encountered an unexpected error in the synchronization engine:
"BAIL: MMS(9588): d:\bt\32669\private\source\miis\shared\utils\libutils.cpp(7045): 0x8023040e (The distinguished name is invalid)
BAIL: MMS(9588): d:\bt\32669\private\source\miis\server\sqlstore\utils.cpp(229): 0x8023040e (The distinguished name is invalid)
BAIL: MMS(9588): d:\bt\32669\private\source\miis\server\sqlstore\nscsimp.cpp(5348): 0x8023040e (The distinguished name is invalid)
BAIL: MMS(9588): d:\bt\32669\private\source\miis\server\sqlstore\nscsimp.cpp(5753): 0x8023040e (The distinguished name is invalid)
BAIL: MMS(9588): d:\bt\32669\private\source\miis\server\sqlstore\nscsimp.cpp(686): 0x8023040e (The distinguished name is invalid)
BAIL: MMS(9588): d:\bt\32669\private\source\miis\server\sqlstore\csobj.cpp(12876): 0x8023040e (The distinguished name is invalid)
BAIL: MMS(9588): d:\bt\32669\private\source\miis\server\sqlstore\csobj.cpp(13976): 0x8023040e (The distinguished name is invalid)
BAIL: MMS(9588): d:\bt\32669\private\source\miis\server\sqlstore\csobj.h(1252): 0x8023040e (The distinguished name is invalid)
ERR_: MMS(9588): d:\bt\32669\private\source\miis\server\sync\syncstage.cpp(2018): ERR_: MMS(9588): d:\bt\32669\private\source\miis\server\sync\syncstage.cpp(612): ERR_: MMS(9588): d:\bt\32669\private\source\miis\server\sync\syncstage.cpp(647): Staging failed
0x8023040e: [21]ERR_: MMS(9588): d:\bt\32669\private\source\miis\server\sync\syncmonitor.cpp(2528): SE: Rollback SQL transaction for: 0x8023040e
Forefront Identity Manager 4.1.3559.0"
If I change the script to return only first member:
$Obj.Add("member", $members[0])
import is successfull and I can see referenced member in Group.
I have also tried to specify DN for both users and roles with the same outcome.
$Obj.Add("[DN]", "Role_"+$Object.$("axs_profid"))
I am using the latest version of PSMA: 5.5
Thanks for your help guys!

I managed to solve this issue.
The problem was in string array (I always appended "," at the end of each value). MA then expected another value after the last comma.
The wrong approach:
[string[]]$members = $Object.$("member").ToString().Split(',')
The right approach:
[string[]]$members = $Object.$("member").ToString().TrimEnd(',').Split(',')

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