HDR merge not working in CIB lesson 5

Hello,
I've seen a few posts on this but no answers... in PS CS5 CIB Lesson 5, the HDR merge command isn't working properly with the images provided on the CD. Following the HDR merging directions in the book on page 139 and 140, the images are coming out very dark and saturated. Does anyone have any idea why this would be happening, and how to make it work properly?
Thanks!

It's not you.
We have two relatively new Adobe Macbook Pros with OS X Lion (6 months or so old). We also have Photoshop CS5 on each (within Adobe Creative Suite 5.5).
I completed the entire Classroom in a Book (CIB) book for Photoshop CS5.
When I went through Lesson 5, I had absolutely no problem with performing their exercise with the "model" and merging the three .dng files. All of their settings worked perfectly, and I was able to complete the lesson without incident. This was maybe two or three months ago.
Today my wife was going through the same lesson, and no matter how many times she tried to follow the lesson book...reading word for word...she got the same result as you, which had the model in merge to HDR "coming out very dark and saturated".
So, we went to my Macbook Pro, where it had worked perfectly in the past when I completed the lesson months ago. However, this time and in every attempt I made, the HDR image was "coming out very dark and saturated" as well.
What worked perfectly a couple of months ago, now it is not working.
So, today it does not work, and we get the same result as you, on either of our Macbook Pros and that is two people following the exact same lesson.
CONCLUSIONS:
It is not you (or us).
Might Photoshop have a bug? I believe I did an update between when it worked months ago and today change something? Why did it work 2-3 months ago? Might a default setting have been changed in Preferences during an update that causes the CIB Lesson 5 model Merge to HDR exercise not work? The merging these three images at three different exposures was not rendering an image anything close to any of the individual exposures. All attempts resulted in "dark and saturated"... and no adjustment of any kind improved the image to look anything like it should have.
Is it the DNG files used in the CIB Photoshop CS5 book CD? The CIB Classroom in Book Lesson 5 for Photoshop CS5 uses these specific ".dng files". I have not tried using other raw files, or even .jpgs in this Photoshop HDR feature. That would be a good test. I have used Photomatix in the past, and like those above, that is what I will use if I get more involved in HDR, but would be nice to have the Photoshop HDR feature to be one I would hopefully be able to use in the future.
If I try the Merge to HDR in Photoshop feature again using another file format, other than .dng files I will post the result.
With this said, we both have loved the CIB Photoshop CS5 book. I may have had a couple other minor issues on where to find something or had to reboot (ie. "text on a path" or 3D) to get the lesson to work. The book lessons and video lessons were still worth every penny.

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Commented the where conditions in merge query

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ORA-02063: preceding line from TEST_DBLINKBUT here is a work around...to add the where condition while joining(ON) itself.
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SQL> /
2 rows merged.
SQL>For you the condition would be...
on (trg.PO_NO=src.PO_NO and trg.LINE_DISTRIB_SEQ=src.LINE_DISTRIB_SEQ AND src.upload_flag='U')cheers,
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