Merging adjustment layers loses effect

I am using Photoshop CS5.
When I merge an adjustment layer with the background layer (Background layer is a photograph) or flatten the image I sometimes lose the effect of the adjustment layer & the image goes beck tolooking like the backround layer looked before I added an adjustment layer, the adjustment has no effect on the merged or flattened image. How can I fix that?

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.
The example is fairly extreme but anyway … the Adjustment would not affect white and black pixels – but as the preview is interpolated gray pixels are introduced at the small preview and the Adjustment seems to take effect.

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