Swatch color playing 'follow my leader'

Hi. I'm fairly new to Illustrator and am using it to design clothing. I'm using CS4 on a mac. I have a cd full of eps patterns which I want to incorporate into my designs, eg a flowery pattern on the collar and a stripe on the main body of the garment. I opened the eps file, selected all then hit 'define pattern'. Then I dragged the pattern window into the swatches panel. Because it had opened in a different document to my garment sketch, my pattern swatch wasn't showing up in the swatch panel on my garment sketch document, so I went back to the pattern document and hit 'save swatches' from the bottom of the swatch panel. Then, back in the garment document I hit 'open swatch library' and found my swatch in 'user defined'. I then used the swatch to live paint the relevant section of the garment. So far so good (except illustrator 'unexpectedly quit' several times while trying to save the swatch - how do I stop that happening?). Then I repeat the process to bring in the next pattern swatch, but the colors of the second pattern swatch go all wrong when I live paint fill the next section of the garment. They seem to be following the proportions of the first pattern swatch. Can anyone help - it's driving me crazy!
Thanks

Repair Permissions on a Mac I can tell you someone like Jacob or Mylenium or James Talmage would have to tell you about the Windows platform.
On the Mac go to Applications?Utilities/Disk Utility and select your hard drive or start up disk the partition or disk you have your system installed on if you have more than one hard drive.
then select first Aid in the dialog and select Verify Permissions and the n after that select Repair Permissions
To check the scratch disk go to Illustrator in the Menu Bar and select Preferences and choose Scratch Disk. If you have more than one Hard drive change the disk to anything other than the startup disk, if yiu only have one hard drive I suggest you get another drive you can use as a scratch disk or partition to make a scratch disk.
I have several Hard drives and a RAID configuration internally. I crossed the names of the hard drives away.
Scratch Disk selection (after you select a new scratch disk you have to quit and relaunch Illustrator in order for it to take effect.
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