New Clutch.....Problems

You'd have to be pretty ham-fisted to damage the clutch disk installing the transmission, usually once you finagle the splines and the pilot bearing together usually it's smooth sailing from there.
It's hard to tell from the pics but what do the fingers look like on the pressure plate when bolted up to the flywheel? The clutch disk looks like it's in right, but it almost looks like the fingers are sucked into the pressure plate, might just be the camera angle but it almost looks like they're too deep, like the finger height isn't set right, which will cause grinding and release problems.