Focus Stacking Failure Using LR and PS 6

I have been trying to do focus stacking using Lightroom and PS and have followed multiply videos step by freaking step and the same thing keeps happening to me...so here it goes
- I import all three pictures from LR to PS as layers. (photo, edit in, open as layers in PS)
- Once in PS, I select all layers and edit, auto align layers.
- This I believe is working going by what I see on my PS.
- This next step is where it goes haywire
- I select edit, auto blend, stack images. And yes, I keep all layers selected from the previous step.
- BUT instead of giving me masks for each layer masking out the out of focus spots I get a complete white mask on the bottom layer, and two complete black masks on the other two! What the heck? I use three images taken from a tripod that have definite different focus points and I can see the difference in each photo when looked at individually. Any help on this will be much appreciated!

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I tried to "focus-stack" multiple photos.
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It's finally working (And now I see making good pictures for focus-stacking isn't that easy).
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I first took R_Kelly his advice. I checked the version, and it seemed that this evening a new update has come out.
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