Warping picture in CS3 - stupid thing beeps at me!

I've used the Transform-Warp tool pretty readily before, but mostly with straight surfaces. Now I'm trying to match a picture onto a curved frame (it's actually imitating individual frames of a segment of film going across my picture)...
So, I put the picture in a layer over the frame (which in reality is transparent except for the lines and start the Transform. First I match the corners by holding CTRL and dragging the corners to the respective place on the frame. So far, so good. However, the right and left sides are still straight, not matching the curve of the frame (see below).
I'm still in the Transform dialog, so I click the Warp button on the Transform toolbar (or right-click and choose Warp). This, of course, gives me the warp grid. However, 9 time out of 10 when I click on a point on the grid the computer beeps!! What is worse, perhaps, is that sometimes it doesn't beep but when I drag the mouse another part of the picture entirely starts to warp!
BTW- clicking Commit to the above transform and then trying to warp that doesn't really work because the transform outline is now a big square that encompasses the picture/layer but its bottom is horizontal. The Warp grid doesn't give me just the points of the layer I'm warping!
Does anyone have any suggestions on a) what's up with the beep and/or b) the "best" method to warp the picture to fit the frame!
As usual, ANY and ALL help appreciated!
- Jim 8^O

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http://www.intel.com/support/motherboards/desktop/sb/cs-010249.htm
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