Photoshop CS3's photomerge giving me a hard time

Hello,
I am trying to merge 4 photos together. All of them are shot with the same
camera settings and they all overlap 25%.
I go through Bridge normally by selecting Tools->Photoshop->Photomerge. After working for a while it throws a 'Script Alert' box on the screen saying "Some images could not be automatically aligned". This has never happened to me before and the photos I'm working on aren't any different from the ones I've merged before. I have also tried merging them two at a time but it didn't work either. Just now I tried it again with older pictures which I have merged before. Photoshop aligned the photos all wrong in the first one and on the other older photos it threw the same 'no-can-do' message as it did with the newer pictures.
What could be the problem?

Reset your preferences as described in the FAQ.
http://www.adobeforums.com/webx/.ef4a07f/1
You either have to physically delete (or rename) the preference files or, if using the Alt, Ctrl, and Shift method, be sure that you get a confirmation dialog.
This resets all settings in Photoshop to factory defaults.
A complete uninstall/re-install will not affect the preferences and a corrupt file there may be causing the problem.

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