Rod,
I do not know how much you know about MIG welding so do not take offense.
Your Stick machine will not function as a MIG machine if that is what I undestood you tried.
The way it funtions is Short Circut, in other words until the the wire touches the work it is not carrying heavy welding current but the machine slopes the current for an instant and that melts the wire then goes back and forth in that manner as long as you are welding maintaining the same voltage.
For the most part the skill of the welder is in getting the volts and wire speed set to his ability to control the puddle.
There is more to GMAW than just the electrical aspect.
I am not familiar with that brand of machine.
Are you useing Gas? if so what mixture? Are you useing Flux cored wire?
Your machine may have inherent problems and it may need fine tuneing.
some of the lessor expensive machine are very limited on controls.
Give a little more detail about the machine or hopefully some who owns one is reading and will help.