Adjustment layers lose effect when merged

This is the look I am trying achieve while the Curves, Levels and the base image are in their own layers.
But when I merge the layers...this is what happens.
What's going on? What am I doing wrong?
I've tried accessing the adjustments in the "Image" tab...same results. I have tried merging a combination of two layers first, it becomes messed up. Is there a way for me to save these three layers together and have my desired results?
Thanks so much.

I'm curious to hear what people say on this, as it's something I've observed plenty of times, but haven't spent enough time figuring it out to really say I fully understand it. I usually encounter it when one of the layers has a blending mode applied and the others do not. I wouldn't have thought that it would occur with just adjustment layers (do yours have a blending mode applied?). I'm sure that I merge groups frequently with adjustment layers and it usually works. But as I said, I don't fully understand it, I just know when it occurs to step back and use another method:
My workaround is that I do a stamp visible (Ctrl+Alt+Shift+E) of the image I want instead of a merge. It seems to work, hence I didn't dig anymore into exactly when and what makes this occur. I'm sure someone has a better solution than mine...

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I am begining to think that the issue is related to the colour profile of this particular image.
I suspect it has nothing to do with the Color Space.
Attached a screenshot I created some time ago to illustrate the issue.
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Thanks for the reply...
Me bad . You are right. Here is the situation I really encountered:
Checked " blend layers as a group "
http://www.flickr.com/photos/58880156@N07/5732874879/in/photostream
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/58880156@N07/5732875367/in/photostream
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Perhaps someone helpful can answer it. By the way, your display picture is crooked.
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How to merge adjustment layers to hundreds of layers?
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Say I have a photoshop File with 100 layers. And say I created 3 adjustment layers on top of those 100 layers to get the adjustments that i want for those layers. I'm happy with the adjustments but Then I NEED to merge those 3 adjustment layers to ALL those 100 layers. Is there a way to easily permanently apply the adjustments to each of those layers without having to do it manually? I absolutely need to merge the adjustments to the seperate layers because of how the layers are being used in a seperate 3d program.
So far what I've been doing is duplicating the adjustment layers for each layer and merging them to said layers separately.. Anyone have a better way? I wish I could just right click the adjustment layer and Tell it to merge to everylayer it affects or apply to every layer underneath it!
Anyone?
Thanks!
Thanks alot if u solve this!
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If I have the exact same clip in 2 separate comps...In Comp 1 I have 5 color correction effects on a single adjustment layer, and in Comp 2 I have 5 adjustment layers with the same effects, 1 effect each spread over the 5 adjustment layers (in the same order). Should I theoretically expect to get the exact same image in both comps?
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