Hello,
Answering an old post. I have several people in my telescope farm here (in northern Chile) who have ASA mounts. And they have had similar problems.
Try to download the trial version of prism (https://hyperion-astronomy.com/ ), everything is integrated, and things are normally a lot smoother.
First take an image, download to nova. astrometry.net, this will give you the focal length and orientation of the image, which you put in the settings if you didn't knew it before. Then the local astrometric engine works a lot better than with pinpoint. Just try it. With my DDM60, I start autoslew, make a home find, start prism, take an image, ask to recognize the field, I am always very close to the position, and I am ready for the night.
There is a lot of interest of having something integrated, instead of a suite of various software which were not designed to work together in the first place. Autoslew is ascom compatible, so is prism, and they work very well together, much better than with maxim, pinpoint, focusmax, and what not...