Ok... I've done tutorials on stitching and yet after 20 hours I still can't get this simple thing to work. I've tried every single combination of align/attach/detach/rebuild/delete history than I can think of. Seriously... 20 hours of failures...

I just want a seamless and smooth mesh... is that so wrong?

I've included an image and the files are located here:
https://www.similarselection.org/aaron/maya/

Any help would be so greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
-Aaron