Thank you all who replied, what a responsive community!
I tried the process again. I was using all manual control points, but I don't believe I was setting the crop and view properly. Using fit and auto crop HDR in the quick preview window and not using the crop button in the stitch tab seems to have made the process work.
Sorry if I'm mistaking the function names, I'm new to Huggin and I'm not in front of the computer at the moment.
I have many more questions but I think I should start a new topic for that.
Thanks,
/Jud