Auto align + blend?

Hi,
I've been photographing trees/leaves and trying to get the max. depth of field F8 + tripod 3 to 5 different points of focus (close to infinity) trouble is the leaves have slight movement and auto align + auto blend layers doesn't quite get it all sharp... ghosts around some of the leaves/branches...
does anyone have a work/around for this?
thanks
Larry.

If you have an extended version of photoshop cs3-cs5 you could try
image stacks.
more info:
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/photoshop/cs/using/WS1E389632-4B37-425e-8EAB-1384C0B432D3a.htm l
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