Why is Premiere elements 9 turning my imported video into clips?

I'm merging two videos.
One person recorded the entire event from far away.  That is my video 1.  It is one single unbroken video.  The camera was NOT paused during recording.
Another person recorded parts from much closer.  This is video two.  These are closeups that I inserting over video 1.
I'm putting a clip in video two timeline, watching both side by side to make sure the audio and movements match, trimming each clip at same beginning and end points - and putting the video two clip into the video 1 timeline.
This was easy for the first 10 insertions as but suddenly Elements wants to break to the video 2 sections into several clips.  They're not.
Why was I able to move the first 10 video 2 clips from the organizer to the timeline just fine - each was entered as one continuous clip.   Now the clips are broken down further into sub-clips.  I'm NOT importing different clips and putting them together in timeline 2.  Each is one is a separate video.  Why is Adobe breaking them down further?

Okay, after numerous random program crashes the above problem went away and did not come back with subsequent crashes.
Problem solved.
Why use Moviemaker?
- It is much simpler to use.
- It does not crash frequently.
- It creates simple videos just as well as elements.
Summary: Moviemaker is easier to use, more stable, but less functional (fewer bells and whistles).
Moviemaker can NOT be used with multiple video tracks.  If it had that capability I'd probably still be using it.
So now I have Premiere Elements 9.
Next problem.
So I've spliced together my two videos into one.
To do this I had to reduce the display size of each video in the viewer to 1/2 size so I could watch each simultaneously to sync them and to determine which video was better to use. I'd watch one version in the upper left had corner and the other in the lower right. 
By the way, it doesn't seem intelligent to have the multiple video tracks but make it so hard to display them side by side.
Now I'm on to creating the DVD menus.  The videos are still showing up at 1/2 size.
Will they show up that way on the DVD?  Do I need to go back and manually enlarge the hundreds of spliced clips to full size?  This would be difficult and time consuming. The fact that the videos enlarge from all sides makes it that much more difficult.  It would be nice if you could just shove it into one corner and pull it the the other corner.  Because it enlarges on all sides you have to center it tand then fiddle with it quite a bit to get it properly aligned on all four sides.  

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