Mystery Solved!!!!
Well - I went to REI and we were alll SOOOO close. I'm guessing those of you with the Road Morph just never thought about it coz it was perfectly normal to you but..................................
the end piece pops out real easy on my pump but there is a rubber sleeve that has to come out with it. Depending on which type of valve you have determines how the end piece fits into the rubber sleeve. So yeah - I had the right side but it wasn't fitted into the rubber sleeve correctly. Once the kid showed me the unit as a whole - it made perfect sense to me. And in the case of my pump, the rubber sleeve doesn't just "pop" out, you have to kinda "dig" it out, flip it around and then fit the end piece and the sleeve back into the pump head! I won't get a chance to "try" it and make sure it works until after the Ride of Silence tonight (don't want to risk not being able to ride coz my tire is flat lol) but my intent is to deflate one of my tires at home and try the pump to make sure it works. I'll let ya'll know how it goes.
Thanks everyone for all your suggestions, we were all of us so close I knew it had to be something really simple!!
Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, champagne in one hand, strawberries in the other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming: "Yeah Baby! What a Ride!"