Photomerge no longer creating layer masks

Hello-
I've been using the automated photomerge function to create panoramas from multiple shots. Yesterday, everything was working fine. I was using the "auto" setting and checking the "blend images together box" and Photoshop would spit out a nice panorama with the images properly aligned and automatically generated layer masks to create a seemless image.
Today, however, Photoshop is misbehaving. Using these same settings, Photoshop aligns the images, but does not create any layer masks, resulting in much more noticeable seems between the individual component photographs. I haven't changed a single setting anywhere since yesterday.
I'm running Photoshop CS4 Extended on Windows Vista with 2GB RAM and plenty of scratch space on the hard drive as well as an Nvidia 8600gt graphics card.
I'm quite confused as to what's going on, as every tutorial and help document explicitly mentions the layer masks as part of the final product in this automated task. Does anyone have any suggestions or similar experiences that might be helpful?

You might have some small values entered in the height, width or resolution boxes.
See if resetting the Crop Tool solves the issue.
With the Crop Tool selected click on the small downturned arrow and choose Reset Tool
After you crop can you see the cropped image on the screen or is it in the layers panel your talking about?

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