Photomerge: no final image

I am running CS5 and CS4 on a mac OS X 10.6.7 with 147Gb of available memory. Photomerge crashes even trying a 2 picture panorama, so I don't think it is a memory issue, and it happens with both CS5 and CS4. The whole application does not crash, it's just Photomerge. After selecting the files and clicking OK, everything seems to go smoothly, until it ends "generating output panorama". At this point, when it has to display the panorama, nothing happens, and the layers from the pictures selected disappear, as if nothing had happened.

Hi Chris,
you're right, I guess it's not a crash, but just a "no result". I just installed all updates, but I am still having the same problem. And I am experiencing exactly the same problem with CS4, even though three months ago I had no problem creating panoramas with it. Could it be that an OS X update may be interfering with Photoshop?
Best,
Jose

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