Does anybody know of a command that has the same as the getInventoryObject command for OBSE in oblivion? I don't think there is, but I thought hey might as well ask before I start annoying the poor devs of SKSE ;P

Wow, sorry about the completely useless post. If I would have done a bit more reading around I would have figured this out before now and without an extra post. Ah well, maybe it'll be useful to somebody else. Although I still would like to be able to get the base objects Editor ID instead of a general name as that would give me a bit more control over manipulation of items.

Okay, so I was able to get the desired effect by using the SKSE functions GetNthForm and GetName.

The syntax I used was something like this.

InventoryItem = ObjectRef.GetNthForm(X).GetName()

X being the number of the item in the inventory of the container starting at 0. For instance if I used GetNthForm(2) it would return the reference of the 3rd item in the container. Also note that by the third item in the container I mean the third item added to the container if it was empty before hand. It does not parse in alphabetical order.