Welll after many many hours of trial and error, I got it to work....

ALiVE [m_18|190] Module ALiVE_mil_logistics INIT COMPLETE TIME: 59.538
ALIVE AI Distributor switching group O Alpha 1-1 to HC HC
ALIVE AI Distributor switching group B Alpha 1-2 to HC HC
ALIVE AI Distributor switching group B Alpha 1-3 to HC HC
ALIVE AI Distributor switching group B Alpha 2-1 to HC HC

The key piece was I did all of the above, but I also created a bat file pointed at the TADST server location. Then I launched the bat file, which launched the HC, launched the TADST dedi server...joined the server..and voila...the HC was in and working.

Now.....

My next question is this.....

23:59:45 > 0:05:18.599 (0:00:00.000) cba_versioning - cba - Version Mismatch! (Machine: HC (HC) version: 1.1.23.150604, serverVersion: 2.1.1.151010, Level: 4)
23:59:45 > 0:05:18.634 (0:00:00.000) cba_versioning - alive_main - Version Mismatch! (Machine: HC (HC) version: 0.9.9.1.50622e+006, serverVersion: 0.9.10.1.51013e+006, Level: 4)

Why is it saying version mismatch? This is all on the same computer?