Collage design for sequential tennis pictures

The picture below gives an idea of what I am trying to accomplish, but have not been successful yet with PSE6 and would like to get help.
http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?picture=1RZYg69oGz3uA2tS1Ov1CAsOqcHa0
3 original photos were taken with my camera in continuous shooting mode and I have used the programming language named J to stitch together a cropped version of the 3 pictures you see in the link above. As good as the image above is for showing what I want to accomplish, the 3 are also a good example of what I do NOT like about the result and would like to use PSE6 to do better; notice how the 3 images do not line up vertically, and I would like to adjust the horizontal location of the pictures also. With my current knowledge of PSE I would have had to use the rectangular marquee tool to extract each of the 3 pieces from each of the original pictures with an Edit|Copy, then Edit|Paste each one, one at a time onto a blank background. An awkward feature of this approach for me is that I have to carefully size and position each rectangular marquee on the original before I can Copy and Paste, which is very time consuming.
My limited understanding of PSE's collage feature suggests that this collage would be a more direct approach but I don't understand how to create layouts for collages and it is my understanding -- though I hope I am wrong -- that collages resize the whole source pictures to the size of the target pictures. Instead I would want to manually adjust the source pictures' sizes and positions in each of the resulting target frames. If it is possible to reposition and resize after the pictures are put into the resulting frames, I don't know how. Heck, I don't even know to create a collage which will fit on a 4x6 drugstore print which is how I give the resulting photos to my tennis friends.
In my wildest fantasies of how to accomplish this project, I also thought of using another PSE feature instead: Panorama stitching. In that fantasy I place the 3 originals next to one another in time sequence, not in geographic sequence. But first I reverse the middle image around its vertical center line so that the right hand sides of the first 2 pictures are adjacent and the left hand sides of the last 2 pictures are adjacent. Then once PSE stitched together the three pieces into 1 frame I would re-separate the 3 frames and re-reverse the middle component back to its original orientation and use various tools on the result to select the portions I want in the result. If this hair brained method worked, the vertical should line up. But I am pretty sure it is too crazy of an idea and I can't find a tool that would refect the center photo around its vertical center.
Well, if anyone can give me some pointers on this PSE project I would be very appreciative.
Brian in Atlanta

Please look at the picture below. I have been able to get the 3 full images into a (giant) layered image and line the three up horizontally. And I have practiced a little making rectangular selections, but here are the problems.
I want the three frames to each be in the ratio 1 to 2 width to height so that together they fill a 4x6 print. More specifically I want each final frame to be 2 inches wide and 4 inches high. The rightmost frame in this particular case limits the vertical top and bottom of the frames because I moved the camera a little and the tennis player is squeezed near the top of that frame. I think the width of the tennis player and his racquet in the middle frame most determine the width of the final frames. That is, the width of the selection must be about 9.5 inches and the height should be about 19 inches.
Rounding off I decide on 10 inches wide and 20 inches high and I know how to make each selection. But I want each selection to be a sort of crop and I don't know how to do that. How do I turn the three selections into three crops of the individual originals or of the 4 layers I am now working in? I have found "save selection" btw, but I don't know what do with those saved selections. How do I keep the three frames lined up while I select and crop each?
It seems to me this would be much easier if I could start with 3 adjacent frames of size 4 inches high by 2 inches wide and drop a picture into each frame and then move each around in its *own* frame and resize all *together* in whatever frame until I get the result I desire. Do "collages" make that possible?
http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?picture=16KHIzoS7hR2qoxkNe7jyFRcJNcgJ
Thanks in advance.
Brian

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