APPLY IMAGE vs. BLENDING MODES.

Hey guys,
I am trying to understand the difference between apply image and blending modes as I realise my grasp of it is weak.
Why blending the duplicate of an image with the original, with a given blending mode, does not give the same result as, Applying the duplicate of an image to the original with the same given blending mode in Apply Image?
What I have done in Photoshop, to be clearer :
1. one image ("background image"), duplicated it ("copy1") and set the blending mode ot linear light (for example). I get the result 1.
2. I selected "background image" and applied it in linear light (for this example), with Apply Image, to the "copy1" image. Result is different.
Can you people tell me why? Where is my thought process faulty? thanks.

DUH moment for me today..
As Sudarshan requested, I was going to do the screen shots of my results, so I did it again and this time got the same result for both situation (apply image and blending the two layers with the same blending mode).
I don't know what the heck I did the first time round, but surely something wrong.. Sorry for the confusion guys.
To answer the questions though : Conroy, I had four layers (four copies of the same image) and grouped them in two different comps (one blend mode and other apply image) for comparison, switching from one to the other.
RKelly : it was an exact copy of the original, so twice the same picture.
As to not make this post a blank shot, I would like to get back to my original question. Blending an image to another with Apply Image OR blending two layers with the blending mode options in the layers palette are two similar processes, is that right?
And add a question, while I am here. Still with Apply Image, will adding an image (A) to another (B) (with Add blend mode) be accurately the same as substracting the invert of A from B (with the substract blend mode)?

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