"Why would Photomerge Automatically Reduce Merged Images in CS5"

Hello,
     Man am I hoping that someone out there can help me with something thats I've been racking my brains over trying to figure out for a week now...
     I resently went to New York... I took several, multiple images, from different locations surrounding the city with plans on taking each set and making multiple panoramas from each of the locations that I shot from.
     For the most part "Everything" has been working out just fine. Except for a few images that I didn't apparently have enough "Overlap" for the "Reposition" to do its thing in Photomerge. I read within these forum pages that it requires about 40% of an overlap in order for Photomerge to see what its looking at. I also read that the "PhotomergeUI" plugin was available so that I could get the "Interactive Layout" back into CS5. I used it in the few instances that I needed to, with no apparent problems that was until I attempted to merge panels that I had merged out of 3 or 4 individual images. I had to use the Interactive Layout in order to merge the 2 panels that I had configured and as it was going through it merging process I watched the lower left status bar go from, for example,.. 18.2 inches - 18.6 inches for each of the 2 panels I was attempting to merge. When the process was completed, the height had gone from the 18.+ inch height, down to 9.2 inch height. Basically cutting my image size by half !
     I tried the whole process over again with a different set of images that I had taken... The set consisted of 12 images with a Height of 4288 pixels (portrait). I managed to get 9 of the 12 images merged, keeping the image in the 4000 - 4200 pixels in height... (i don't have a pano head so my camera was leveled by eye)   I then merged the remaining 3 together with no problem... When I went to merge the 3-panel merge with the 9-panel merge the Merge Process did the same thing... I watched the status bar go from 4000 - 4200 for the heights of the 2 panels, down to 2167 pixels once merged!
     I then tried the whole process over again, doing 2 panels of 6 images... when I got to the last set of 6, my height, again, dropped by half once merged... So I tried something to see what would happen. I took the remaining panel of 6 that I merged with no alteration to their height... and reduced them to match the height of the set that had been automatically reduced because of the merge.... I then attempted to merge the 2 panels together, and again, the final merge had the height reduced... this time down to a whopping 2.4 Inches!   From 18 inches in height, down to 2 inches in height, and not once did I ever go near anything that had to do with scale or image height...
Can someone Please tell me what going on...?   I once did a panoramic in CS4 consisting of " 2 - Rows of 32 Portrait Images ", one row on top of the other... The final panoramic was of a 15 mile stretch of New York that I took 3 years ago... 64 images in total and I never had anything like this happening when it did it... It took me a while, but I never had any issues with Height and therefore overall size being altered as a result of a Photomerge...?...?
I look forward to hearing some insight...
ToxicImagery....

Hi Bob,
ID CS 5.5 design standard, latest updates running on Mac OSX Lion 10.7.4.
The screen grab below
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