Photomerge failure in CS4 (windowsXP)

The Photomerge process fails on my PC: three images are offered to the proccess (I have tried them in jpg,tif and dng) and the merging work starts OK then, without error message, drops out.
Control seems to be returned to the user OK and photoshop just waits for the next requirement to be started. CS4 does not recognise the errror and does not produce any result or error message.
I have registered a query with CS4 and have been issued with tracking number - but the first reply starts with "we understand photoshop crashes" which is not the case, it merely stops working on a proccess without error message so I wait for further advice.
It is clearly particular to my PC - the three images were given to a collegue and were stiched in the normal way.
Any ideas?

I'm astonished at the idea reducing memory percentage photoshop takes will help, I would have thought it might be the other way! However grateful for the idea and interest.
I backed down to 55% but after a short bit of work "aligning layers" the process stops as before, but still gracefully - says nothing but leaves CS4 still running OK and can be used for other tasks.
It may be worth commenting that when I first encountered the problem it got much further into the process before retireing without comment. I found the Windows swap file was limited to the "C" disk, and as I had a "D" I changed it to make use of the additional HD on the assumption performance would improve - it did too. But why should that change influence the CS4 photomerge failure? The mind boggles.

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