Photomerge CS5 vs CS3

I upgraded to CS5 a while ago but did not have an opportunity to work with CS5's photomerge. In CS3 I used either Automatic or Interactive. In CS5 both appear to be "broken". I tested this be using the same images I used to make the CS3 panos in CS5. This test used images from the NASA Apollo archive (
http://www.apolloarchive.com/apollo_gallery.html ) where I had copied some Apollo 17 images to merge into a pano. Automatic split them and gave me two rows of images.Used the same images for the CS5 Reposition and Reposition moved the images around and I could not modify their locations. I tried it again and then the images moved down on one end. Images attached below.
Is it possible to get the routines back from CS3? I found the interactive one the most useful and the Automatic was much more robust.
CS3 Interactive Image
CS5 Automatic
CS5 Repositon

Okay, I managed to download a number of "pan" images from that site, though not the ones you used specifically.
One of the issues is that things are changing between frames, because the astronaut doing the shooting didn't rotate the camera around one spot perfectly, or because things like his own shadow moved between frames.
The above was on Automatic, and you can clearly see that it chose Cylindrical for the top set and Perspective for the bottom set.
I'm going to experiment some more. Maybe I can think of some ways, such as pre-processing the images through Camera Raw to normalize the exposures better or downsizing or something to help Photooshop better find the commonalities between the frames.
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