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what do you mean by the "halos"? and yea photomatix...still trying to learn on photoshop...
if you look at your first pic, you can see a bright "outline" of the building. you can reduce that in tone mapping. i have the standalone photmatix and i'm still trying to learn the nuances of the program. good luck and hopefully we can help each other learn photomatix!